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8-30 August 1999 The Official Programme

Welcome to the definitive Fringe Programme. As ever the diversity and range of events is remarkable with over 15,000 performances presented by 600 different companies. Edinburgh will once again enjoy an arts extravaganza which is famous for bringing the hottest talent to one of the most beautiful of cities. To experience this event is to take part in the world’s largest arts festival and will be one you never forget.

Paul Gudgin, Fringe Director

Main Listings in the Programme This is an alphabetical listing by company or performer name in the different artform categories which are defined by different colours.

How to Use the Programme

page5

Children’s Shows

page 8

Comedy and Revue

page 12

Dance & Physical Theatre

page

Index of Companies

page 6

Musicals & Opera

Venue Map

page 65

inside back cover

This is an alphabetical listing by performer or

Every Fringe venue is allocated a number which is shown

company name. A person’s name is usually listed under

on the map at the back of the Programme. The venues

the surname (e.g. look for Michael Smith under ‘S’).

are then listed with a grid reference for easy access.

Index of Show Titles

page 149

This is an alphabetical listing by show name including the company or performer’s name with a page number to indicate where the full details can be found.

Index of Venues

page 124

This is an alphabetical listing by venue with a list of all the shows appearing at that venue during the Fringe.

Shows for Younger Audiences In addition to the events indicated in the Children’s Shows section, the performing companies in other sections have

The Festival Fringe Society Ltd. is a company limited by guarantee and recognised as a charity. Its policy is determined by a Board of Directors elected at the AGM in August and is the continual improvement of the world’s largest open arts festival, where any person can participate without constraints by the Fringe Society. The Festival Fringe Society Ltd. accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of the contents or details listed in this Programme.

indicated where they feel their production is suitable for younger audiences. These shows are highlighted in the main listings and in the Index of Show Titles by the o symbol.

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Typesetting and layout by The Festival Fringe Society.

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City Art Centre

• 2 Market Street • Edinburgh • Monday - Saturday: 10am - 6pm, Sunday: 12pm - 5pm

Admission: £3.00 • Concessions: £2.00 • Season Ticket: £5.50 • Tel: 0131 529 3993 • http://www.cac.org.uk

How to buy Fringe Tickets

By Post The Fringe Box Office is open for postal bookings as early as Monday the 14th June.

You can use the ticket booking form on page 157 to request tickets. Return the form to the address below and please allow a minimum of 10 days for delivery.

BOX YQ, 180 High Street, Edinburgh EHi iQS

By Phone on 0131 226 5138

There will be a handling and postage charge of ÂŁ1.50 per transaction

A telephone booking service is available from Monday 21 June.

Hours are:

10.00 -18.00, Monday to Saturday (21 June - 24 July) 09.00 - 21.00,7 days a week (26 July - 4 September)

Minicom number: 44 (0) 131 220 5594 for customers with hearing difficulties.

Disabled access information on page 124.

In Person At the Fringe Box Office, 180 High Street, Edinburgh EHi iQS Counters are open from Monday 26th July, 10.00 -19.00,7 days a week

Or at one of our satellite offices around town: At Waterstones, the Booksellers, 83 George Street, Edinburgh EHi Counters are open from Friday 30th July, 10.00 -19.00, Monday to Saturday and 11.00 -19.00 Sunday At HMV, 93 Princes Street, Edinburgh EHi Counters are open from Friday 6th August, 10.00 -19.00, Monday to Saturday and 11.00 -19.00 Sunday At James Thin Booksellers, 53 - 59 South Bridge, Edinburgh EHi Counters are open from Friday 30th July, 10.00 -19.00, Monday to Friday, 10.00 -17.00 Saturday and 11.00 -16.30 Sunday

If you need further information The Fringe Society and Shop is situated in the heart of the Old Town at 180 High Street, Edinburgh EHi iQS and is open 7 days a week during the Festival.

Tel: 44 (0) 131 226 5257

Fax: 44 (o) 131 220 4205

email: admin@edfringe.com

www.edfringe.com Full details of the Programme can be found on our website with an in-built search facility to help you locate your desired show or create your own daily schedule of events.

To find out information on all the summer festivals visit www.edinburghfestivals.co.uk

The Daily Edinburgh Festivals Guide Look out for the official daily listings magazine, The Guide. Produced in association with the Guardian, this free magazine is the best way to find everything to do across every festival, every day.

Other useful contacts

Tourist Information 0131473 3800

Other

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Thanks for the support of the many organisations around Edinburgh who have joined our Fringe Angels Scheme

Archangels

Angels Campbell Smith WS

Valvona & Crolla

Haw House Mexican Cantina & Chargrill George Intercontinental Hotel

United Colors of Benetton Royal Mile Whiskies The Baked Potato Shop

The Doric Tavern Giuliano’s Giuliano’s on the Shore Elephant’s Sufficiency The Whole Works Therapy & Massage Centre Cask & Barrel Bann’s Vegetarian Cafe

Festival Flats

White Dove Crafts

Charles Duncan Consultants

Smoke Stack - Restaurant

Le Sept Restaurant

The Basement - Bar

Ian Dickson Travel Ltd

Off the Wall Restaurant Viva Mexico Restaurant

Hendersons Mammas American Pizza Co

Cherubs

(Grassmarket)

Natwest Edinburgh Nature’s Gate The Witchery Tours The lolly Judge Alexis Kae’s Costume Emporium Bangalore Restaurant Igg’s Restaurant The Edinburgh Floatarium Denzler’s Restaurant, Leith Greyfriars Art Shop Cyberia Helios Fountain Giftshop

Tartan Silk Ltd Richard Smith Guy Chapman Associates

Helios Fountain coffee-house EHi Cafe Bar Mammas American Pizza Co (Howard St) Fat Face Ltd A & A Hair Studios Ltd Ristorante Gennaro Coconut Grove Mexican Restaurant Merchants Randolphs Susie’s Wholefood Diner Annie Houston Reddick Associates

The Programm Unless otherwise stated, tickets for all shows are sold in advance from the Fringe Box Office and satellites.

Some venues also run their own box office. This is indicated by the word ‘Tickets’ and a telephone number e.g. Tickets 123 4567 under the company name in the main listing. They might only operate during the Fringe.

Please read page 3 for further booking details.

How to use the Programme All programme entries have been written by the companies themselves. They have been standardised for ease of reading and a variety of abbreviations and symbols are used throughout.

WEEK BLOBS Show at a glance which week(s) the company is performing.

Fringe weeks run from Sunday to Saturday.

VENUE NUMBER

MAP GRID REFERENCES

Each Fringe venue has its own number. Find it on the Venue Map using the Grid Reference

Use this in conjunction with the Venue Map at the back of the Programme.

★ FRINGE FIRST STAR Indicates that the play is eligible for a Scotsman Fringe First Award.

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FRINGE SUNDAY L- Venue I 0 - Holyrood Park,foot of Royal Mile. Info 226 5257

These awards are given to companies

not previously performed more

can you get it all - hundreds of Fringe performers, music, comedy,

SUITABILITY FOR CHILDREN

than 6 times in the UK.

circus and theatre. Non-stop entertainment, great food and fresh air.

This number indicates at what

Laze, graze and be amazed.The Park’s the Place.

age the production could be

presenting outstanding new drama

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FRINGE SUNDAYThe highlight of the Fringe! Where else

Aug 15 I 1.00 (I 7.00) Free

Suitable for ages 5+ —

suitable for younger audiences.

Please note that it is the performing companies themselves who recommend

Indicates shows suitable for

this age and not the Fringe Office.

non-English speakers.

PRICES DATES Fringe performances can take place on any day of the week. Sundays are assumed to be performance days unless otherwise stated.

TIMES

Are for unreserved seats

The 24 hour clock is used. Shows

in nearly all cases.

starting in the early morning

Concessions (reductions) are

eg. 01.15 are listed under the

often given to Students (S),

previous day’s date, but shows

Unemployed (U), Disabled(D),

starting at yam are shown on the

OAP's (0), Children under 16 (C).

current day's date. Finishing

Identification will be asked

times in brackets are

for at the venue.

approximate and cannot be guaranteed.

Index of Companies A AA@giggleswick 72 Aabacus 72 Aah, Entertaining Theatre 72 AboutFace Theatre Company 72 Absolute Banana Theatre Company 65 Acoustic Underground at the Tron 50 Acting with Energy 8 Activated Image 72 AcX Theatre 72 The Adam Pottery I 18 Chris Addison: Gentleman, Scholar, Acrobat 13 Adelphi Whisk(e)y & Herbie's Cheese 70 Afflicktion 13 African Experience 44 Afridonia 8,50 Afterthought Productions 72 Alasdair Fraser's Skyedance 50 Albert & Friends Instant Circus 8 Terry Alderton 13 Allen Wright Award 70 Alone, Coupled & Bunched featuring Chicago Artists 44 Alternate Shadows 13 American Dream Productions 72 American High School Theatre Fest 44,65,73 A Minimis Incipe 73 Amnesty International UK 13 Amsterdam In Players 74 The Amsterdam Parade presents 44,74 Ancianos Productions 74 Anglo-French Theatre Project 74 Anima Productions 74 AI Theatre Productions 74 Brian Appleton 13 The Aqueous Summer Company 74 Arborea Musica 50 Architecture on the Fringe 70,118 Arkle Theatre Company 65,74 Arousal Theatre Company 75 Art-Vic Anglo Russian Theatre 65,75 The Observer Assembly 44,50,75 The Observer Assembly - Comedy 13 The Observer Assembly presents Cooking with Elvis 77 Aurora/Western Connecticut State University 8,65 Axis Theatre 77

Bablake at Diverse Attractions T, Backstage Theatre Company T, Badac Theatre Company 7i Bill Bailey K The Banana Rebel Troupe I; Bangladesh Festival of Food and Culture 4' Baracoa Cuban Nights 5( Bare and Ragged Theatre 50,7i Arj Barker I; Angela Barlow T, Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding in Arctic Boosh 11 BBC New Comedy Awards Iâ– BBC Radio 4 IBBC Scotland I! Beckerman Balken: Bronze Sculptures I II Lenny Beige I; Benefit - Crusaid & The Food Chain Ii Mitch Benn i; Steven Berkoffs East 7; Steve Best i; Beyond Productions 71 Big Onion 4 Bilton Action Theatre Group i Birthwrite Theatre Company T Black Treacle Theatre T Blank Canvas Theatre 7' Blinding Image 71 Adam Bloom |; The Blue Rinse Theatre Company 71 Blunderbus Theatre Co I Bodger and Badger !

Body And Soul Health Fair 7l Boilerhouse (Scotland) / Trouble (New Zealand) 71 The Bongo Club - out of the blue 15,50,11 Boom Chicago I The Bootlegs I 6

E 84 70 The Eccentric Theatre Company Eddie and Bunty Productions in 23 78 assoc, with Meshuganeh Ent Edible Theatre 84 Edinburgh Acting School 8,66,84 Edinburgh College of Art 119 78 Edinburgh Festival Voluntary 70 78 Guides Association 84 78 Edinburgh Gaelic Drama Group 70 78 Edinburgh Interfaith Association 65 Edinburgh International Book Festival 52,84 79 The Edinburgh International Club Festival 52 79 The McEwans 80/- Edinburgh 84 17 Literary Pub Tour 84 79 Edinburgh People's Theatre The Edinburgh Photographic Society I 19 Edinburgh Printmakers 119 Edinburgh Renaissance Band 53 Edinburgh Theatre Arts 85 Edinburgh University Theatre Company 23,85 Edinburgh Youth Theatre 66 Edith Simon Gallery 119 Edward's Theatre Company 85 Cackophonics Productions 19 Electric Eel 23 Caledon, Culture and Language The Elements 46,53 Education Centre 70 I 157 Performance Group (UK) & Caledonian Folk At The Guildford 50 Platform 9 Theatre (Toronto) 46 California Travel Troupe @ Empire Studio Productions 85 San Francisco 8, 19 Enematic 85 Cambridge Footlights 19 Simon Evans 23 Cambridge Mummers 79 Everyman Youth Theatre 85 Cambridge University ADC 45,65,79 Evgueni Panfilov's Ballet 46 Camera 79 Evil Pixie Productions 24 Ken Campbell 19 Exacting Theatre Company 85 Canada's Catalyst Theatre 81 Scott Capurro 19 Carlton Comedy Warehouse 19 F Castaway Players 81 The Famous Grouse House - Scottish 9,24, Ceilidhs at the Caley 50 International Presents 46,47,53,54,86,117 86 Channel 12 Theatre 81 fecund theatre 70 Craig Charles 19 Festival Revue Cheeky Monkey 50 Festival Theatre USC-USA 9,24,66,86,87 87 Cheese 2K at Doctor Watts Library 51 Fettes at the Fringe 24 Chhi Yoga and Meditation Centre 70 Filthy Gibbon Productions 87 Children's Christian Workshop 8 Firefly Productions 87 Christie's Comedy Cellar 21 The Firm 66 Cia.lrmas Do Tempo 81 First Act Opera International 87 Cirque Eloize 45 First Among Sequels 24 The Clarsach (Scottish Harp) Society 51 Fit To Burst Classy Bitch Productions 21,51 Fletcher Players and Footfall Productions 87 24 Club West 21,45,51,81 Fluffy Brothers/Michael Tombs 54 Codpiece Drama Society 81 Flux Festival 24 Collective Gallery 118 Valentine Flyguy 87 Collective Unconscious 81 The Flying Pig Theatre Company 66 Comedy Cafe - Off the Back of a Truck 21 Forth Children's Theatre 24 The Comedy Supermarket 23 The Four Horsemen 9 The Comedy Zone 23 Fox Youth Theatre Compagnie Le Puits 81 Frantic Redhead Productions Company Gavin Robertson 81 25,47,55,87,119 87 Company Theatre 65,81 The Freaks Massimo Cruciani 118 Jason Freeman: Shiny Side Up, Dirty Side Down 25 Crumpet Theatre Company 81 25,87 Sean Cullen 23 Fresh Blood Theatre 70 Culture Wars 70 Fringe AGM Fringe Club 71 Fringe Poster Competition 119 D Fringe Sunday 71 Dainty Dishes 23 Dave Fulton 26 Dallas And Packer 23 Fun Tubes Productions 26 Danish Cultural Institute 118 Fuori Scena 26 Danza.Da 45 The Davidson Singers 51 G Dazzle Contemporary Jewellery Exhibition 118 Gaelic Graffiti Dead Earnest Theatre 81 Galerie Mirages The Dean Gallery 118 GASP Demarco European Art Foundation 45,81 Georgian Productions 9,26,27,29,30,6< Devil's Kitchen Productions 81 Gilded Balloon Diabolical Productions 65 Gilded Balloon at the Palladium Diakonos Physical Theatre 45 Giralda Theatre Company Dirigible Productions 82 Glass Talisman Dirty Bird Productions 82 Global Dance Works Diverse Attractions 82 Gob Squad Omid Djalili 23 Gone Wild Productions DK99 83 Dave Gorman's Better World Double Edge Drama 83 Graffiti Downe Right Bonkers 8 Boothby Graffoe Drayton Court Theatre Company 52,83 The Durham Revue 23 Dyball and Kerr 23

Brahma Kumaris B.R.A.T.S (Bishop Reindorp 'A' Level Theatre Studies) The Brave New Workshop Brian the Lion Marcus Brigstocke Bring It On Bristol Experimental Theatre Company Brouhaha Bruce Morrison at the Tron Brunstane North Brunton Theatre Company bst Productions Peter Buckley Hill Bunk Up Burklyn Youth Ballet The Bush Ed Byrne Jason Byrne

Granary Productions Great Lives Theatre Steven Alan Green Green Man Productions Gresham's Youth Theatre Greyfriars Kirk Promotions Steve Gribbin Group 51 Group Therapy Theatre Company Gumboots The Gus Theatre Company

89 89 31 31,89 89 56 31 89 89 47 89

H Rich Hall aka Otis Lee Crenshaw 33 Hampden-Sydney Sonneteers 89 The Hard and Fast Theatre Company 33,90 Harland Hamstrings Theatre Group 90 Harpsichords At St Cecilia's Hall 57 Harvard-Westlake School/ Rembiko Project 90 Hattie Hayridge 33 Vic Henley 33 Herbie Treehead Presents 9 It's not the End of the World

by Richard Herring 90 Rainer Hersch 33 Highland Harmony Festival 57 Hippodrome State Theatre (U.S.A) 90 Hodar Productions 90 Dominic Holland 33 Holyrood Art Club 120 Homeless and Hungry Productions 91 Hong Kong Youth Arts Festival 9 Hoot Theatre Company 91 Hot Poker Productions 91 Hot Wax 91 The House of Bacchus 71 The H.R.T.C. 66 Hudson and Pepperdine 33 Hurtle Parrott Festivals 57 Hypnotist Hugh Lennon and his Hypnodog 33

Ian Turbitt's Puppet Theatre Illyria Independent Country Productions Independent Theatre Council The Inflatable Theatre Company Inflate Inhouse In Human Form International C.D & Record Fair In the Aisles Productions

9 91 34 71 91 91 120 92 71 92

J Jacknife Productions 92 Jakes Ladder Theatre Company 92 jamjar 34 Japan Experience 34,47,57,92 Jay Productions 92 Philip Jeays 58 John Lewis Players 92 John Peel Puppets 9 Dave Johns 34 The Jolly Roger Theatre Company 92 Jonathan Burnett - Solo Mime 47 Barb Jungr 58 Phill Jupitus 34 Just Singin' Round 58 K Kaos Theatre UK Ltd Rosie Kay KCS Theatre Company in Three Plays in Search of a Title Les Keen Kenny Young & The Eggplants The Ken Oath Theatre Company Kenspeckle Puppets Kilkee Drama Group - West Clare Kit and the Widow Present Kneejerk Theatre Krazy Kat Theatre Company

93 47 93 34 58 34 9 93 34,93 93 9

Index of Companies

M Morag McLaren 67 Dougie Maclean 58 Lee Mack's Bits 35 Magapar 48 The Magic 8 Ball Theatre Company 95 The Makars & DMDC 95 Malign Communications 35 The Mambo Club 58 Ennio Marchetto 35 Marie Curie Cancer Care 120 Martha Furey Productions 95 Martin Sutherland Presents 95 Marvin R. Hiemstra: Poet & Joymaker 95 Bruce Mathiske - Guitar Sensation 58 Mel and Sue 36 Merlin International Theatre, Budapest 95 Mervyn Stutter's Pick OfThe Fringe 36 metro-boulot-dodo 95 Metropol Theater, Munich 67 Mettle Productions 95 Midatlantic Productions 67 Midland Art Theatre 95 Midlothian Community Artists 120 Mighty Aphrodite & Yew Tree Theatre Productions 68 Mitchell & Webb 36 Money, Cup, Sugar, Water 95 Moonbun Mathilda Productions 95 Ben Moor 95 morpheus theatre 96 Motormouse Productions 36 Mountaintop Players Ensemble 96 Movers 48 Moving in the Spirit 48 Colin Murphy 37 Al Murray the Pub Landlord: And a Glass of White Wine for the Lady 37 N The National Association of Youth Orchestras 58,59 National Gallery of Scotland 120 National Gallery of Scotland at the GMA 120 National Museums of Scotland 59,71 National Student Theatre Company (NSTC) 96 National Youth Music Theatre 68 National Youth Theatre of Great Britain 96 Natural Theatre Company 37 Negative Equity Theatre Company 96 Nepotism Productions 68 The Netherbow Theatre 96, 97 Network Of Stuff Theatre 97 Newbury Youth Theatre 68 Newcastle University Theatre Society 97 New Mercury Theatre 97 Newsrevue 37 New Voices at Canongate Kirk Edinburgh International Choral Festival 59 Phil Nichol 37 The Nimmo Twins 37

Ross Noble No Limits Theatre Company No Ordinary Angels/Cultura Inglesa-SP Mark Northfield North London Performing Arts Centre Nottingham New Theatre Number One Show

37 48 48 60 9 97 37

o The Odd Youth Theatre Offstage Theatre Off the Fence Fund Off the Kerb Roadshow Ohio Northern University The Oily Cavern Theatre Company Earl Okin Old St Paul's Music 99 Ondaatje Theatre Company 100% Proof Theatre Company The Onion Shed Only Connect On The Wagon The Daily Telegraph Open Mic Award Grand Final 1999 Open Window Ophaboom Theatre Orion Theatre Productions Os Satyros Theatre Company The Other Tongue Outlook Tower and Camera Obscura Out of the Nomads Tent Outrageous Scripts Ovation Productions Over The Edge Oxford University Touring Company

97 97 38 38 68 98 38,60 60 98 98 9,98 98 60 38 98 98 98 98 98 121 121 38,71 68 99 9,99

P Eileen Page 99 Panama Theatre Company 99 Paulerspury Players 99 Pekko's Puppets II Penn Theatre Ensemble 99 Deb Percy 38 Performance Exchange 101 Perrier Pick OfThe Fringe 38 Phillips Auctioneers 121 Philomusica Of Edinburgh 60 Pickled Onions Theatre Project 101 Platform One Theatre Company 101 Pleasance Comedy 38,39 Pleasance Festival OfTheatre '99 60,101,102,103 Pocket Mercury Productions 103 Portfolio Photography Gallery 121 Pounds, Dollars and Cents 103 Jonathan Prag 60 Present Company Excepted 103 Greg Proops 39 Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association 121 Purple Productions 39 Pussy Galore's Flying Circus 48

Q QMW Theatre Company Quaker Festival Committee Quest Theatre Company

103 121 103

R Rabbi Lionel Blue 39 Nola Rae 48 Rapid Classics 103 Neville Raven 39 Raven Crest Productions 103 RAW Theatre Company 103 The Reduced Shakespeare Company 41 Jon Reed 41 Rejects Revenge Theatre Company 103 Reservoir Swans 103 Rexana Productions 68,104 The Reynolds Gallery 121 Richard Medrington's Puppets II Ridiculusmus 104 The Riot Group 104

Robert Knox verses Lee Ness - 'The Gay Bernard Manning' 41 The Robert Smyth School 68 Robin Laing and Friends 60 Andy Robinson 41 Rocket Venues 60,104,105 Roscian Productions 105 The Rose Theatre Company I 1, 105 Rowan Studio 105 Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 121 Royal Holloway Music Theatre 68 R.I.A.S. 122 Royal National Theatre Studio 71 The Royal Scottish Academy Of Music & Drama 48,105 The Royal Scottish Academy 122 The Rubber Band 48 Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art 122

s St Andrews And St Georges At Festival Time 60,61 St Cuthberts Parish Church Lunch Time Organ Recitals 61 St Marks in Castle Terrace 62,69 St Mary's Cathedral 62 St Michael & All Saints Church 62 Sally Vaughan and Richard Jordan Limited 106 Salsa Celtica 62 Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens 69 Schhh!!! Theatre Company 106 Scottish National Association Of Youth Theatre 106 Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art 122 Scottish National Portrait Gallery 122 Scottish Poetry Library 71 Screamers 41 Screaming Blue Murder Comedy 41 Seasonal Productions 107 Second Nature 107 Segovia Guitar Trio 62 Shakespeare 4 Kidz Theatre Company 69 Shakti 49 Shattered Windscreen Theatre Company 107 Short Back & Sides 107 Shrewsbury School 107 Simply Barbra 41 Sinfonia 62 Frank Skinner's Greatest Hits 41 Skulduggery Theatre Company 107 Small Planet Productions 69 Michael Smiley 109 Smug Club Productions 42 SNUG 69 S of A Productions 109 Songs ofVolatility: Monotype and Word Drawings: Patrick Jones 122 Southern Light Drama 109 So You Think You're Funny 42 Spectrum Youth Theatre Company 69 The Beck's Famous Spiegeltent I 1,42,63 Spit & Polish Theatre 49 Stage 84 69 Stage 2 109 The Stand Comedy Club 11,42 The Stand Comedy Club: Stand II 42 The Stand Comedy Club: Stand III 42,43,109 The Stand-Up Show 43 Starving Wife Art Company 122 Steel Bella Venue 109,123 The Stockbridge Bookshop 123 Storyteller Scotland 109 Gordon Strachan 123 Straight Up Theatre Company 109 Strange Company 71 Street Artists - Ellen Deakin, Fred Deakin, Harry Olden 123 Strictly Scottish 49 Studio One Gallery 123 SUSU Blow Up Theatre Group 109 Sweet and Naive 109

T Tagus Theatre 109 Talking Bodies 49 Tall Stories 11,109 Tantrum Theatre Company 111 Teaspoon Productions 111 Teatr Biuro Podrozy 111 Teatro Alba III Tempo Musical Productions 43, 63,69 Theatre Alba/MPR III Theatre Cryptic 111 Theatre du Risorius II Theatre Talipot 49 Theatre 28 112 Theatre Works 112 Theatre Workshop 112,113 Theatrum Botanicum in Assoc with Holders Season, Barbados 113 Thingimijig Theatre Company 43 Camille Thoman 49 Thought-Forms Productions 49 Three Tables For One 113 Tickled Pink Productions 43 Tina C 43 Tomee Theatre 113 Paul Tonkinson 43 Traquair Fair 71 Traverse Theatre 113 TujuTaksu - Masked Dance Theatre 49 Tunnelvision Theatre Company 113 TurboZone 49 24 Royal Circus 123 20:21 Performance 49

u UGly Theatre Company ULYSSES Theatre Company present "Pushkin @ Fringe.99" unchained fusion Union Theatre United Players Guild United Welfare Union, Nepal University College London Union Drama Society V Vague Ideas Theatre Valvona & Crolla Johnny Vegas Venue 13 Andre Vincent Tim Vine Visible Darkness Volcano Theatre Company Volte Face

I 13 I 15 115 115 115 49 115

115 63,64,116 43 11,49,116 43 43 116 I 16 116

w Warwick University Drama Society 116 The Waverley Bar - Upstairs 64 Wee Stories Theatre For Children II Wells Cathedral Junior School II The West Clare Experience 123 West End Craft and Design Fair 123 Whispering Eyes 49,117 Whistlebinkies Whitburn Band Wide Wildwood Books 71 Wisepart Productions 117 The Witchery Tours 71 Sally Woodcock 43 Wycliffe 117

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L Laboratorium - 33 93 Lackadaisical Contemporary Art 120 La Compagnie Orange Sanguine 47 La Danse Fantastique 67 Lampman Productions 67,93 The League Against Tedium 34 Leaner and Fitter 35 Learmonth 95 Leicestershire Youth Arts 9,67,95 Leitheatre 95 Lennie & Morris 35 Peta Lily 95 Lip Service 35 Lip Theatre Company 35 Livingston Music Society / Opera Minora (Amsterdam) 67 Lost Cause 95 Lothian Youth Arts & Musicals Company 67 Norman Lovett 35 The Luckley-Oakfield Theatre Company 95

X X-Rated Revue Y Year Out Drama Company Byron Yee The Young Vic Y Touring Theatre Company

43

I 17 43 117 117

z ZooT.C. Z Theatre Company

69 117

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Children’s Shows

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Venue 82 - Komedia @ Southside, 117 Nicolson Street Tickets 667 2212

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* M BODGER & BADGER'S MAD MASH 3 The children's BBC favourites live on stage in a mashyarvellous mixture of magic, mind-reading, mayhem and mess, with masses and masses of Badger's favourite MASHED POTATO! Plus,... special guest star - MOUSEY. Aug 6-15 10.30 (11.30) £6.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 3-9

ACTING WITH ENERGY Venue 41 - Hill Street Theatre, 19 Hill Street Tickets 226 6522 ★ ■ I'M ME AND I CAN A gripping story and an interactive set combine to create a sense of magic in everyday things. Science provides the spells and understanding makes you a magician, but watch out for the Baron of Darkness.

Aug 20-30 11.20 (12.20) £4.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 5-9

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Venue 117 - Viewforth Centre, 104 Gilmore Place Tickets 2297659

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■ AFRIDONIA - AFRICAN VILLAGE Introduction to Africa, fashion parade, hair plaiting, drum call and song, rhythm and dance, food, question and answer.

Aug 9-28 (not Suns) 18.45 (19.45) £5.00 (£2.00) Suitable for ages 5+

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Venue 19 - C, Over-Seas House, 100 Princes Street Tickets 225 5105

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★ ■ THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL With three tiny flames between herself and the darkness, the Match Girl dreams the dreams of a fairy princess.

Hans Christian Andersen's haunting fairy-tale brought to magical life.

'Thrilling, tautly written' TES. 'Had the audience transfixed' Scotsman.

Aug 4-30 (not 15) 11.30 (12.20) £5.00 (£4.00) (C £3.00) Suitable for ages 4+

CALIFORNIA TRAVEL TROUPE @ SAN FRANCISCO

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Venue 123 - Rocket Venue @ South Bridge Resource Ctr, Infirmary Street Tickets 558 9991

ALBERT & FRIENDS INSTANT CIRCUS

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Venue 119 -Wireworks (behind Fringe Office),Tron Square

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■ CINDERELLA London's premier children's circus joins with Circus Mignon, Hamburg's finest youth circus, to present an inspired new interpretation of the timeless classic. Family entertainment at its best. Workshop 10am - noon.

Aug 14-22 12.45 (13.35) Free (donations) ■ FRU-FRU With great skill and imagination ordinary objects spring to life to enchant and delight as Slovenia's finest puppet company transforms our understanding of the world we live in.

Aug 14-22 14.00 (14.45) Free (donations)

★ ■ DOLPHIN TALES will plant trees in the young (at) heart.Two magical tree stories! Music! Movement! Colour! JULIA BUTTERFLY (Mon/Wed/Fri), a young woman's quest to save a forest from destruction.THE LORAX (Tues/Thur/Sat), by Dr. Seuss: an environmental cautionary tale.

Aug 9-21 (not 15) 09.30 (10.20) £4.50 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 4-12

CHILDREN S CHRISTIAN WORKSHOP AURORA/WESTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY Venue 21 - Roman Eagle Lodge, 2 Johnston Terrace Tickets 226 7207 ★ ■ KALEIDOSCOPE An interactive musical journey developed from the imaginative writings of primary schoolchildren from Danbury, Connecticut, USA. Join the fun that enchants, entertains and enlightens. Zany mythological characters, trips through history. Help save summer from the Greedy King!

Singalongs, games.

Aug 9-22 (not 16) 11.30 (12.15) £5.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 3-11

BILTON ACTION THEATRE GROUP

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Venue 123 - Rocket Venue @ South Bridge Resource Ctr, Infirmary Street Tickets 558 9991

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★ THE CARNIVAL OF DREAMS A vibrant combination of dance, music and dialogue; performed for and by young people. 'Carnival of Dreams' views Carnival time through the characters' interwoven dreams and aspirations.

Aug 23-27 15.00 (15.50) £3.00 (£2.00) Suitable for ages 10+

BLUNDERBUS THEATRE CO Venue 45 - Old St. Paul's Church & Hall,Jeffrey Street Tickets 556 0476

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THE FIREBIRD The Firebird leads the woodcutter on a quest of adventures in this bewitching tale of friendship. Blunderbus return with this spectacular family show which bursts to life with music, songs and life-sized puppets.

'Excellent ****' The Scotsman 1998.

Aug 7-28 (not Suns) 10.35 (11.35) £5.00 (£4.00) Aug 8,15,22 16.35 (17.35) Suitable for ages 5-9

EDINBURGH ACTING SCHOOL Venue 177 -YMCA,73 Ferry Road Tickets 07775 871 342 / 556 0007

“Stunning stuff” The Herald 98^ Special Thanks to British Airways

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★ JULIET'S REVENGE by Mariela Stevenson.Verona, the morning after the night before. Has Romeo made a mistake? Should he have held out for Rosaline?

What will his mates say? What will Tybalt do to his sister's seducer?

A revenge tragi-comedy from an award-winning writer.

Aug 9-14 13.30 (14.45) £6.00 (£4.50) Suitable for ages 12+ THE SELFISH GIANT by Oscar Wilde. When Oscar Wilde wrote fairy stories for his children he was telling them about more than princes and giants; he was teaching them about life and the way to live it. A charming and moving production.

Aug 9-14 11.30 (12.30) £6.00 (£4.50) Suitable for ages 5+

Lost in the City?

6 - 22 Aug (not Mon 16), 12noon £5 (£3) Venue 34, 0131 220 5606 www.wonder.co.uk/hkyaf/

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★ THE COUNTRY PANCAKE A play especially for young children.

A fun-filled hilarious colourful comedy concerning a certain cowpat lottery.

Aug 23-30 17.00 (17.45) £6.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 5-12

See our map inside the back cover

‘Looks spectacular, sounds fantastic ...an inspiration” The Scotsman 98

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DOWNE RIGHT BONKERS

Venue 8 - Off the Back of aTruck Comedy Venue, Junction of Grassmarket & King's Stables Road

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“What a sheer delight your Matilda is” Liccy Dahl

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■ FATIMA 3 children, an angel and the beautiful Lady who spoke to them.

Stories of St Andrew of Scotland and Jubilee 2000. Wonderful stories told and performed in a workshop setting. Dress up and take part in this thrilling extravaganza!

Aug I 1,13,14 14.00 (15.30) Free Suitable for ages 8-1 I

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■ THE VELVETEEN RABBIT based on a book by Margery Williams. More than anything the stuffed toy wanted to become a real rabbit. He must choose between the magic of the Toy Fairy and The Boy who will die without him.

Aug 9-21 (not 15) 10.30 (11.20) £4.50 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 5-14

Puppets. Colourful puppets, audience participation and a tiny piano. Join The Little Red Hen in this gentle and intimate adaptation of the traditional folk tale.

Aug 24-29 14.00 (14.50) £4.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 3-7 DR BUNHEAD S SPRINGLY NEW COOK BOOK As seen on BBCs Fully Booked and The Weather Show. Dr Bunhead's new science show features spontaneous jelly baby combustion, the awesome potato bomb and, of course, Barny the frozen stunt banana.Visit www.bunhead.com Aug 6-8,18-22,25-29 10.15 (11.15) £4.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 8+ THE REALLY DANGEROUS SAFETY SHOW Dr Palfi, no stereotype clown, has delighted audiences worldwide with his special brand of gentle wit and charm, prescribing humour with an educational content that is never patronizing. 'You are terribly funny' Lucas 6 years.

Aug 9-15 10.15(11.15) £4.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 4-11

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Venue 30 -The NetherbowTheatre, 43 High Street Tickets 556 9579

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THE LION,THE FOX AND THE MOUSE Why is a lion brave, a fox cunning and a mouse timid - but lucky! Enjoy the world's best animal stories with Scotland's own puppetteller. Beautifully crafted puppets with songs, music and joining-in.

Aug 5-30 (not 8,15,22) 11.00 (11.50) £4.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 4-8

JOHN PEEL PUPPETS Venue 152 - Augustine's, George IV Bridge Tickets 225 6575

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GOLDILOCKS &THE 3 BEARS &THE 3 BILLY GOATS GRUFF Best entertainment on the Fringe for under 6's.Traditional glove puppet theatre.

Well loved stories. 2 minutes walk from the Royal Mile. Child-friendly venue.

Birthday parties, nursery groups welcome.

Aug 9-21 (not 15) 11.00 (11.50) £3.95 Suitable for ages 2-6

■ YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN The delightful musical based on the famous comic strip 'Peanuts' by Charles M. Schultz.

Aug 7,14,21,28 12.00 (13.00) £5.00 (C £2.00)

Venue 30 -The Netherbow Theatre, 43 High Street Tickets 556 9579

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Aug 16-21 13.55 (14.50) £4.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 7-13

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Venue 38 - Gilded Balloon Theatre, 233 Cowgate Tickets 226 2151

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MAGIC BOB S ANTI-MAGIC MAGIC SHOW Want to see the best children's entertainment in town?? Want to see skillful magic performed by a legendary performer? Don't want magic wands or fluffy bunnies?

THEN BOOK EARLY! 'Oversleep at your peril... Magic Bob's back!!' Observer.

Aug 9-20 (not 13) 11.00 (12.00) £5.00 (£4.00)

HERBIE TREEHEAD PRESENTS

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Venue 188 - Gallon Centre, 121 Montgomery Street Tickets 0797 1319922

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★ CHERUB'S GARDEN Four Angels with furry wings, a little cuddly cherub, a giant caterpillar called Mee-ow, a pantomime horse who's lost, a dog with slippers on, lots of silly songs.What a way to spend a day!

Aug 6-30 (not 15) 11.30 (12.45) £4.50 (£3.50) Suitable for ages 5+

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Venue 34 - The Famous Grouse House, 5 Chambers Street Tickets 220 5606

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★ MATILDA by Roald Dahl. Excellent family entertainment! Adapted in a physical, magical, humorous, musical style. 'Don't feel you have to take a child to see this show... revitalising' The Scotsman. Sell-out performances in 1997/98!

Aug 6-22 (not 16) 12.00 (13.00) £5.00 (£3.00)

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★ ■ BIG AGGIE'S PEARLS Big Aggie the Giantess will set Catriona free, but only if Jamie promises to fetch her pearls - from the bottom of the sea.

With colourful puppets, original music and songs, Sylvia Troon makes this classic Scots tale dance.

Aug 5-30 (not 8,15,22) 14.00 (14.50) £4.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 5-9 KRAZY KATTHEATRE COMPANY Venue 82 - Komedia @ Southside, 117 Nicolson Street Tickets 667 2212

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■ KRAZY KAT'S THREE LITTLE PIGS An extravaganza specially devised for 3-6 year olds, with music, puppets and two bewildered actors. 'Simply the best' Daily Express. 'Theatrical wackiness and downright buffoonery!' Time Out. 'Variety, wit and pace' Chicago Life.

Aug 16-29 10.30 (11.15) £3.50 Suitable for ages 3-6 LEICESTERSHIRE YOUTH ARTS 00©©0 Venue 65 - StAnn's Community Centre,South Gray's Close, Cowgate Tickets 557 0469 KI3 ★ THE WORST WITCH by Jill Murphy. Mildred Hubble is a trainee witch but her spells keep going wrong. And never more wrong than when she turns Ethel, the school bossy boots, into a pig...! Now a hilarious hit television series.

Aug 16-28 (not 22) 10.00 (11.00) £5.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 5-12 ★ THE SECRET GARDEN Adapted from Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Orphaned Mary Lennox is sent to live with her uncle in a bleak Yorkshire manor house. Life on the moors is very lonely - until the day she discovers the magical secret garden...!

Aug 16-21 12.00 (13.00) £5.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 8-12 THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS Adapted from Kenneth Grahame's timeless tale of the Riverbank and the Wildwood. Meet Ratty, Mole and, of course, the incorrigible Toad in a sparkling new production from the renowned Leicestershire Schools Theatre Company.

Aug 16-21 16.00 (17.00) £5.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 7-12 ALICE IN WONDERLAND Adapted from Lewis Carroll. Follow Alice as she falls into the strangest adventure of her life! Where has the Cheshire Cat gone?

Will the Knave of Hearts be found guilty? And what size will she be next...?

Aug 23-28 12.00 (13.00) £5.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 7-12

T-shirts, posters & other goodies at the Fringe shop 180 High Street, Royal Mile

THE NORTH LONDON PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE Venue 4 - C too, St Columba's by the Castle, Johnston Terrace Tickets 225 5105

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■ THE WIZ 'Ease on down the road' to see this fantastic funky musical sensation. Adapted from the classic novel 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'.

Bring the whole family and start the day with the fun and energy ofThe Wiz! Aug 9-14 10.00 (11.00) £5.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 5+ THE ONION SHED Venue 40 - The Quaker Meeting House, Victoria Terrace Tickets 220 6109

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★ HANSEL AND GRETEL are chased by the Compulsories who issue late-bedtime and no-homework tickets. They must also deal with the monsters & witch. Who will help them? Find out in this zany new version of an old tale.

Aug 23-28 12.05 (12.55) £4.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 3-12

An exciting pre^show workshop allows you to become part of the fun!!!

August 25, 26, 27 1.35pm at Augustine’s (152) Tel: 225 6575

OXFORD UNIVERSITY TOURING COMPANY©©©©© Venue 126 - C cubed, St John's Hall, West End, Princes Street Tickets 225 5105 19 THE BFG Join Roald Dahl’s Big Friendly Giant for a brain-bogglesome scrumdiddlyumptious humdinger of an adventure. Meet her micklesome majester the Queen, watch some wondercrumptious wizzpopping - just make sure the Fleshlumpeater doesn't get his gogglers on you. Suitable for chiddlers of all ages.

Aug 6-30 (not Suns) 10.00 (10.50) £5.00 (£4.00) (£3.00 C)

ALL THE EXCITEMENT OF THE FRINGE IN JUST ONE DAY

BT Scotland Sunday 15th August From 11am - 5pm at Holyrood Park

PERRIER PICK OF THE FRINGE AWARD FOR COMEDY 4 DATES YOU SHOULD REMEMBER:

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Venue 82 - Komedia @ Southside, 117 Nicolson Street Tickets 667 2212

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THE MAN WHO LOST HIS NOSE Major Kovalyev, a man of great importance, wakes up one morning and finds his nose has gone... A funny, surprising and mysterious play adapted from a short story by Gogol.

Aug 19-29 10.45 (11.40) £4.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 4-10

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Venue 30 -The NetherbowTheatre,43 High Street Tickets 556 9579

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★ THE GOLDEN BIRD Following last years critically acclaimed performances, this magical Polish legend returns to Edinburgh featuring all the Rose Theatre trademarks that have won children's hearts from Aberdeen to Zagreb. With live music, masks, magic and magnificence.

Aug 19-25 14.00 (15.00) £2.00 Suitable for ages 5+

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Aug 9-12,16-27 I 1.00 (12.00) £3.50 (£3.00) Grannies free with three!

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Venue 5 - The Stand Comedy Club, 5 York Place Tickets 558 7272

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■ TUMTUMTINKER Who made Cinderella's glass slippers and boots for Puss? Magical shoemaker TumTumTinker, that's who. Mark Pen?ak 'exceptionally gifted' Evening News presents an adventure filled with mirth, mime, music and mayhem. For ages 4-12, leave those adults to lunch outside!

Preview Aug I 13.00 (13.45) £3.00 (£2.00) Aug 6-29 (not 16) 13.10(13.55) £4.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 4-12

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Venue 126 - C cubed, St John's Hall, West End, Princes Street Tickets 225 5105

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■ SNOW WHITE 'Mirror, mirror on the wall...' Can Snow White survive the poisoned apple and live happily ever after with her Prince Charming?

Music, magic and a dwarf or two in this enchanting, humorous production from award-winning Tall Stories.

Aug 6-30 (not 15) 15.15 (16.15) £6.00 (£5.00) (£4.00 C) Suitable for ages 5+

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Venue 81 -The Garage Theatre, Grindlay Court Centre, Grindlay Street Tickets 221 9009

PERRIER PICK OF THE FRINGE SEASON IN LONDON’S WEST END. DATES AND DETAILS

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★ POOH AND PIGLET MEETTHE HEFFALUMP AGAIN Back to Mr Milne's attic for the story in which a search is organdized and Piglet's worst nightmare almost comes true. With Rabbit, Eeyore and others.

Pooh for purists. Ages five to adult.

Aug 5-30 (not 8,15,22) 12.30 (13.20) £4.50 (£3.50) Suitable for ages 5+

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■ RAMA AGAINST THE DEMONS Authentic Indonesian shadow puppet theatre. Battle between good and evil where all magic comes alive... Rama sets off to encounter the dangers of the forest to fight against the demons who kidnapped his beloved, Sita.

Aug 8-30 10.30 (11.30) £6.00 (£5.00)

VENUE 13 Venue 13 - Harry Younger Hall.Lochend Close, Canongate Tickets 07050 161320

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★ ■ LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD Welsh sheep and a Fairie Queen spice up this classic fairy tale. From the writers of TOM; 'Best fringe kids show' News of the World. 'Songs as delightful as the best from the Disney stable' Scotsman.

Aug 16-28 09.30 (10.45) £3.00 (£ 1.00) Suitable for ages 3+

WEE STORIES THEATRE FOR CHILDREN Venue 30 - The Netherbow Theatre, 43 High Street Tickets 556 9579

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■ LABYRINTH - THE MYSTERY OF THE MONSTER IN THE MAZE Interactive adventures in Ancient Greece for ages 5 and up. Our handsome hero, the horrible monster, a beautiful princess and a roll of toilet paper.

'Funny, imaginative, participatory' The Scotsman.

Aug 5-30 (not 8,15,22) 15.30 (16.30) £4.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 5+

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ALICE - THE MUSICAL Join in and become part of the wonderful world of Lewis Carroll's Alice. Action packed workshop and production will leave you wanting more. Fun for everyone - including grown-ups.

Cast ages range from 7-11- incredible!

Aug 25-27 16.35 (18.15) £5.50 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 5+

Warning: narrative may drift into unexplored territory Funniness Coefficient: 9.71

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THE COMEDY SUPERMARKET Comedy to suit all tastes at a price you can afford Delivered by memetic engineer Tony Hindle EJPRODUCTIONS IN ASSOCIATION WITH WL PRESENTS

TERRY MIERIDN 8-29 August 9pm - 10pm Tickets £3.00 (£2.00)

THE CANONS' GAIT CELLAR BAR 232 Cannongate, Edinburgh Fringe Box Office: 0131 226 5138 Enquiries: 07901 971717

leaves the audience exhilarated, breathless and exhausted with laughter’ THE GUARDIAN

‘Electrifying stage presence & hilarious first rate impressions'

ASSEMBLY ROOMS 0131 226 2428

CHRIS ADDISON: GENTLEMAN, SCHOLAR, ACROBAT

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Venue 33 - Pleasance, 60The Pleasance Tickets S56 6550

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CHRIS ADDISON: GENTLEMAN, SCHOLAR, ACROBAT Such a nice boy' Guardian, the great-flapping, rosy-cheeked nonce returns with his second solo-show at an earlier time so he can get to bed at a reasonable hour this year. 'A natural born performer' Melody Maker. Sell-out 98. Book early.

Previews Aug 4-6 19.30 (20.30) £4.00 Aug 7-9,11,12,15-19,22,23,25,26 19.30 (20.30) £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 13,14,20,21 19.30 (20.30) £8.50 (£7.50) Aug 27-30 19.30 (20.30) £9.00 (£8.00)

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Venue 33 - Pleasance,60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550

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AFFLICKTION A salubrious selection of dubious films, made by some sick and sorry individuals - join in by showing your films (call 0171 598 7299 or email afflicktion@hotbot.com for details). *Win prizes of arguable quality!

'It's good but it's not right' Roy Walker.

Previews Aug 4-6 14.25 (15.25) £4.00 Aug 7-9,11,12,15-19,22,23,25,26 14.25 (15.25) £5.00 (£4.50) Aug 13,14,20,21,27-30 14.25 (15.25) £6.00 (£5.50)

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TERRY ALDERTON Festival debut from this rising star of the London comedy scene. Combining a fearless on-stage presence and unshakeable confidence with streetwise, hyperactive delivery. 'Loose-limbed, electric, physical comedy with hilarious caricatures and stunningly acute impressions' Independent.

Aug 6-12,15-19,23-26 22.00 (23.00) £9.00 (£8.00) Aug 13,14,20-22,27-29 22.00 (23.00) £ 10.00 (£9.00)

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■ SEVEN DEADLY SINNERS (+ I FREE) Angry comedy revue group proudly presents six nights of sin! If you're a glutton for comedy don't be slothful, covet a ticket and make your lustful friends envious.

Aug 16-21 15.10 (16.10) £5.00 (£4.00)

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Venue 3 - Assembly Rooms, 54 George Street Tickets 226 2428

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THE ETHICAL INVESTMENT CO-OPERATIVE'S 'JUST ANOTHER TICKLE' Rob Newman (extended set, only appearance Fringe ’99), Jo Enright, Johnny Vegas and outrageous compere Brendan Burns make the third annual Tickle for Amnesty International the first unmissable gig of the Fringe.

Aug 8 10.00 (11.45) £12.00 (£10.00)

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Venue 33 - Pleasance,60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550

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★ BRIAN APPLETON'S HISTORY OF ROCK'N'ROLL Part-time media lecturer, and failed muso, Appleton delivers his unique version of pop history: his audition for Genesis, altercation with The Clash, and bizarre encounter with Rod Stewart - The Gravedigger. 'The Forrest Gump of Rock' Sounds.

Aug 16-30 (not 23) 16.30 (17.20) £6.00

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Venue 3 - Assembly Rooms, 54 George Street Tickets 226 2428

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JO BRAND BENEFIT The much loved star of stage and screen returns to the festival for the special gala comedy show for the children's hospital in Brasov, Romania. Featuring the best of this year's festival comedians.

Special guests to be announced.

Aug 28 22.30 (midnight) £10.00 ■ COOKIN' Beyond language barriers... beyond cultural barriers... beyond stage barriers..! Cookin' slices, chops and beats its way into your heart as four crazy Korean chefs perform a high energy percussion show.

You'll never look at cookin' the same way again!

Aug 6-12,15-19,23-26,30 22.00 (23.00) £9.00 (£8.00) Aug 13,14,20,21,27-29 22.00 (23.00) £ 10.00 (£9.00) Suitable for ages 8+ ★ ■ KRASKY VOSTOKA (COLOURS OF THE EAST) The Kings of clowning from Kirgisia! This hour of madcap eccentricity will charm and tickle the slightly naughty child in all of us. Prepare to be involved in a real festival treat and expect the unexpected.

Aug 7-12,15-19,23-26,30 14.40 (15.40) £8.50 (£7.50) Aug 13,14,20-22,27-29 14.40 (15.40) £9.50 (£8.50) THE PURPLE PINEAPPLE SHOW - MEDUSAS Gorgeous, 30, single.

Dabbling in witchcraft, drowning in vodka, comic venom oozing from every religiously exfoliated pore, the girls hunt that elusive, available, millennium man.

'Like Jenny Eclair on speed *****' The Scotsman.

Aug 6-12,15,16,18,19,23-26,30 20.00 (21.00) £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 13,14,20-22,27-29 20.00 (21.00) £9.00 (£8.00) PARSONS AND NAYLOR With 5 sell out Edinburgh shows and a 1998 National Tour of Australia under their belt, P&N return with a brand-new hour of crafted chaos. '***** absolutely hilarious, they'll have you laughing your socks off Edinburgh Evening News. 'Brilliant' Guardian.

Preview Aug 6 19.20 (20.20) £6.00 Aug 7-12,15-19,23-26,30 19.20 (20.20) £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 13,14,20-22,27-29 19.20 (20.20) £9.00 (£8.00)

THE NUALAS - THE BIG SHINY DRESS TOUR Hilarious, stretch-sequinned, glitter-ball evening of bizarre comic songs and febrile Irish banter' Time Out. 'The Nualas are the new rock and roll' The Independent.

Sell-out Edinburgh '97, '98. Sell-out London, '99. Selling out right now.

Aug 6-12,15,16 18.50 (20.00) £8.50 (£7.50) Aug 13,14 18.50 (20.00) £9.50 (£8.50) STEPHEN KAMOS Popular host of the sell out 97 & 98 Edinburgh Big Value Comedy Shows and sought after comic is back - on his own. A huge hit in Sydney, Amsterdam, Cape Town and Sturminster Newton. No single quote is enough.

Aug 6-12,15-19,23-26,30 18.30 (19.30) £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 13,14,20-22,27-29 18.30 (19.30) £9.00 (£8.00) ★ DEHYDRATED AND TRAVELLIN LIGHT A double bill from Sean Hughes and Owen O'Neill. Set in a small town in Ireland, it includes death, beer, deadly snakes, death, a van that runs without petrol and the murder of Dana by Russians.

Aug 17-19,23,25,26,30 18.50 (20.00) £9.00 (£8.00) Aug 20-22,27-29 18.50 (20.00) £10.00 (£9.00)

Venue 3 - Assembly Rooms, 54 George Street Tickets 226 2428

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THE VERY BEST OF KIT AND THE WIDOW Celebrating their fifteenth anniversary ('crystal'); for first-timers and nostalgic stalwarts, a humanely culled selection of golden glories, 'unmissable' Time Out 'Achingly funny' The Times 'A national treasure' Daily Telegraph.

Aug 8-12,15-19,23 20.30 (21.30) £8.50 (£7.50) Aug 13,14,20-22 20.30 (21.30) £9.50 (£8.50) ■ BLUE GRASSY KNOLL & BUSTER KEATON ON THE BIG SCREEN! Astounding gypsy-blue grass troupe 'The Blue Grassy Knoll' perform an outstanding live filmscore to Buster Keaton's silent classics, 'Cops' and 'Sherlock Junior''... brilliant' Rolling Stone Magazine '... brilliance, inventiveness and musical humour’ DB Magazine.

Aug 10-12 18.30 (19.45) £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 13,14 18.30 (19.45) £9.00 (£8.00) Aug 17-19,23-26 22.00 (23.15) £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 20-22,27 22.00 (23.15) £9.00 (£8.00) ■ THE RIGHT SIZE - DO YOU COME HERE OFTEN? Winners of the 1999 Olivier Award for Best Entertainment return with their smash hit comedy about two men stuck in a bathroom. Last performance before they hit New York, catch them while you can!

Aug 15-18,23-25,30 18.30 (19.45) £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 20-22,27-29 18.30 (19.45) £9.00 (£8.00)

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Venue 59 - Edinburgh Playhouse, 18-22 Greenside PI. Tickets 0870 606 3424

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■ BILL BAILEY Gilded Balloon Productions presents... For one night only Bill Bailey returns to the Festival. 'Shambling, bucolic, medieval, roadiemusical mayhem on a grand scale' The Wellington Post.

'He is quite simply brilliant' The Scotsman.

Aug 24 23.00 (00.30) £ 10.50 (£8.50)

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★ THE ULTIMATE KOSHER COMEDY EXPERIENCE A hilarious and irreverent cocktail of songs and sketches with a unique Jewish flavour.

Still sizzling from sellout London performances. Go ethnic - join us!

(Guilt trip optional!) 'Excellent script... highly amusing' Lee Levitt,Jewish Chronicle.

Aug 26-30 (not 28) 16.45 (17.45) £8.00 (£5.00)

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ARJ BARKER Winner of Perrier Newcomer '97 returns. Sell out '97 & '98.

Book early! 'Criminally talented. Detain this man now in the interests of comedy’ Herald. 'A superior wit and sparkle' Scotsman.

New show, new jokes, same old Arj. Previews Aug 4,5 20.55 (21.55) £3.00 Aug 6-9,1 1,12,15-19,22-26 20.55 (21.55) £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 13,14,20,21,27-30 20.55 (21.55) £9.00 (£8.00)

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Venue 33 - Pleasance, 60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550

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JULIAN BARRATT AND NOEL FIELDING IN ARCTIC BOOSH Vince and Howard are back and this time they've got little blue sandals on.

Come with them to a frozen wasteland, a furious blend of whippy beats and icy dreams. Catch-the-power, smell-the-frost.

'The biggest comic buzz at this year's Fringe' Sunday Times.

Previews Aug 4-6 18.00 (19.00) £4.00 Aug 7-9,11,12,15-19,22,23,25,26 18.00 (19.00) £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 13,14,20,21 18.00 (19.00) £8.50 (£7.50) Aug 27-30 18.00 (19.00) £9.00 (£8.00)

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BBC NEW COMEDY AWARDS GRAND FINAL The culmination of a year-long search for the funniest new comedians in the country. BBC Talent 2000, Radio 4, BBC I and UK Play have scoured the national comedy circuit to bring you the finalists.

Aug 16 20.00 (22.00) Free Tickets available day before show from venue 10am, max 4 per person □□H RADIO

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Venue 33 - Pleasance,60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550

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JUST A MINUTE Radio 4's most devious panel game returns to Edinburgh for its annual bout of festivities. Nicholas Parsons keeps the reins on the disorder provided by Paul Merton and a bevy of other beauties.

Aug 9 19.00 (19.45) Free Aug 9 20.15 (21.00) Tickets available day before show from Pleasance 10am, max 4 per person FRONT ROW Radio 4's Silver Sony Award nightly arts show brings you the highlights, debates and unexpected pleasures from the Fringe and the Festivals.

Aug 10 19.00 (20.00) Free Aug 27 15.00 (16.00) Tickets available day before show from Pleasance 10am, max 4 per person LOOSE ENDS Ned Sherrin returns to Edinburgh with a fragrant cast of guests, the power to heal domestic animals and a brand new catchphrase: Wheesht! Hold ma boabie.

Aug 14,21 09.45 (11.00) Free Tickets available day before show from Pleasance 10am, max 4 per person FRINGE FICTIONS Ease yourself into the day with a free cup of coffee and a funny short story. Now in its fourth year and fast becoming a Fringe ritual.

Come along and find out why. Clue: it's not the coffee.

Aug 16-20 11.00 (11.30) Free Tickets available day before show from Pleasance 10am, max 4 per person DAN AND NICK RETURN FROM THE WILDEBEEST is available at all these good hotels...The Discreet Gentleman, Cleethorpes.The Rubber Sheet Holiday Inn, Cheltenham and the Didcot Moathouse. Starring Dan Freedman and Nick Romero. Contains some offensive vowels.

Aug 16 15.00 (16.00) Free Aug 16 19.00 (20.00) Tickets available day before show from Pleasance 10am, max 4 per person EDINBURGH FRINGES Boothby Graffoe presents the best and funniest bits of all the festivals - comedy, theatre, music - in an hour.

No need to see any other show.

Aug 12,17,24 12.00 (13.00) Free Tickets available day before show from Pleasance 10am, max 4 per person THE VERY WORLD OF MILTON JONES Milton Jones, Milton Jones, so good they named him. Come and be at the recording of a new series of the smash-hit show, starring Britain's funniest Milton. Includes a fat lot of jokes.

Aug 23 20.00 (21.30) Free Tickets available day before show from Pleasance 10am, max 4 per person THE MARK STEEL LECTURE Would a modern day Copernicus have made it to the moon? Would Washington have survived a Watergate? Mark Steel's wry look at the world's most infamous characters will change your perspective on history forever.

Aug 23 12.30 (13.30) Free Tickets available day before show from Pleasance 10am, max 4 per person THE HANNIBAL LECTURE Steve Punt's whistlestop tour through the macabre history of murder-for-entertainment.'... this is as entertaining a show as you're likely to see' The Scotsman, 1998.

Aug 23 16.00 (17.00) Free Tickets available day before show from Pleasance 10am, max 4 per person THE WAY IT IS Radio 4's topical, satirical sketch show returns with more revealing insights into what's really going on in the media. Let us tell you 'The Way It Is'. With Richard Richard and Lolly Swain.

Aug 24 21.30 (22.30) Free Tickets available day before show from Pleasance 10am, max 4 per person

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BRIAN MORTON Brian Morton reviews the Fringe - quality, thoughtful chat and live performances.

Aug 9-Sept 3 (not Sats,Suns) 18.15(19.00) Free

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FRED MACAULAY Funnyman Fred is back in the Capital meeting the stars of the Fringe.You can watch the show as it happens.Tune in for details of Fred's unusual location.

Aug 9-12 08.45 (10.00) Free

STEVE BEST Venue 33 - Pleasance,60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550

THE FESTIVAL CABARET Fred MacAulay presents the pick of the Festival and Fringe.

Aug 13,20,27 18.15 (19.00) Free IAIN ANDERSON lain Anderson brings the best of Celtic and Classical Music from the Festival - live acts in a surprise venue.

Aug 9-13 14.30 (16.00) Free

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THE McBEIGE LECTURE For 30 years showbiz king Beige has watched British light entertainment go to the dogs. Hear Lenny unleashed, as the elder statesman of chutzpah puts the entertainment world to rights.

'Beige's talents are almost endless' Time Out. Preview Aug 6 19.25 (20.25) £6.00 (£5.00) Aug 8-12,15-19,24-26,30 19.25 (20.25) £8.50 (£7.50) Aug 13,14,20-22,27-29 19.25 (20.25) £9.50 (£8.50)

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Venue 59 - Edinburgh Playhouse, 18-22 Greenside PI. Tickets 0870 606 3424 BENEFIT - CRUSAID &THE FOOD CHAIN Off The Kerb proudly present the biggest names in comedy - ALL FOR CHARITY. Last year saw Lily Savage, Julian Clary, Paul Merton, Phill Jupitus, Peter Kay and more.

Sell-out '98 - check press for details.

Aug 21 20.00 (23.00) £15.50 (£14.50)

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MITCH BENN Right, I've only got forty words and I used up two with my name... Oh no! There go another fourteen! Help! That's six more gone!

Bother, at this rate I won't be able to write about my fantastic Aug 6-30 20.00 (21.00) £7.00 (£6.00)

MOVIES AND SHAKERS Siobhan Synnot soaks up the atmosphere of the Film Festival and talks to the stars in town.

Aug 20 16.00 (16.30) Free Aug 22 11.30 (12.00)

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STEVE BEST IS IMMATURE Fresh from performing with Frank Skinner and Craig Charles on sell-out UK tours! 'Visually stunning and brilliant comedian' Time Out 'In a class of his own' The Times 'See him!' The Guardian Aug 4-8,10-12,15-19,22,24-26 19.30 (20.30) £7.50 (£6.50) Aug 13,14,20,21,27-30 19.30 (20.30) £8.50 (£7.50) ADAM BLOOM Venue 33 - Pleasance, 60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550

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ADAM BLOOM: BEYOND A JOKE Winner of both the 1998 Time Out Award and 1998 Polygram Award.'His mission is to convince you that he is the greatest comic ever, and he makes a surprisingly good case' 5 Stars The Scotsman. Sell-out 96/97/98 Aug 10-12,15-19,22-26 19.00 (20.00) £7.50 (£6.50) Aug 13,14,20,21,27-30 19.00 (20.00) £8.50 (£7.50)

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■ THE BONGO CLUB CABARET A festive feast from the buffet of burlesque with exquisite spots and sets from top live bands 'til the wee small hours - the most cost effective treat on the fringe. Don't believe me?

Ask the natives.

Aug 4 21.30 (03.00) £5.00 Aug 9-12,16-19,23-26,30 22.25 (05.00)

Fresh From Their Sell-Out London Residency

a highly original brand of monk hilarity... catch them before they’re out of sight ” (critics’ choice 97 & 98)

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“firmly demonstrates that the art of the double act isn’t dead”

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6-30 AUGUST 9.30pm THE GILDED BALLOON TICKETS 0131 226 2151

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★ 2000 YEARS DOWN THE DRAIN: FROM JESUS CHRISTTO JERRY SPRINGER Sharp satire and clever improvisation. Last year's Scotsman: *****! 'Boom Chicago makes 'Whose Line is it Anyway' look like a school drama class'. Herald recommended: 'Intelligence meets funny bone'.

Aug 6-30 (not 16) 20.30 (21.45) £9.00 (£8.00) ★ PICK-UPS AND HICCUPS: AN IMPROVISED LOVE AFFAIR Last year's Scotsman gave them five stars.This year Jill Benjamin and Seth Meyers bring hysterical new characters that expose the best and worst of men and women. Laugh out loud funny!

Aug 6-30 (not 16) 23.30 (00.45) £8.00 (£7.00)

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THE BOOTLEGS Following the success of the Bootleg Bootleg Beatles, Comedy Club (London) brings you the Bootlegs. 'I and the rest of the audience hardly caught our breath' Independent. 'If you see one sketch-show this year, make it this one' Scotsman.

Aug 6-30 (not 16) 15.15(16.30) £6.00 (£5.00)

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★ ■ THE PHALLIC MENACE AN INSIDER'S GUIDE TO AMERICA' America's oldest continuing satirical comedy theatre presents the pride in the shame of being American. This sketch comedy revue targets sex, politics, religion and sex. Participate! Audience suggestions inspire improvisational set after show.

Aug 9-14 22.00 (23.15) £7.50 (£5.50) Aug 9-14 23.30 (midnight) £2.50

BRIAN THE LION

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★ TOAST Crisp, crunchy and dripping with butter: quality comedy from 'Cambridge's Finest' Sunday Times. Contains Footlights' tastiest members, plus genetically modified sketches carefully selected from the best of six hit revues (contents may settle during transit). Dogs MUST be carried.

Aug 4-30 (not 17) 18.15(19.05) £6.00 (£5.00)

MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE

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MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE: HELP YOURSELF Award-winning stand-up.

'Hilarious gags, infectious talent' Stage. Gives brutal therapists, concerned counsellors, nutters and freaks unique comic treatment. 'Alarming, Psychotic, Delightful' Melody Maker. 'There's something of the Chris Morris in Brigstocke's freewheeling use of language. Inspired.' Time Out Aug 6-30 (not 9,23) 20.15 (21.15) £8.00 (£7.00)

PETER BUCKLEY HILL

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PETER BUCKLEY HILL AND SOME COMEDIANS FREE New venue for 1999: same successful format. Four different comedians every night for the price of none whatsoever. Best value on the Fringe. Come several times.

PBH comperes. **** The List 1998.

Aug 7-30 (not 14,28) 21.25 (22.55) Free (no ticket required) Venue 106 - Christie's Comedy Cellar, 27-31 West Port, Grassmarket Tickets 228 3765

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FREE PBH OF THE EARHOLE Return of Peter's one-man show: new title, same format. PBH presents songs of small furry animals and domestic implements, among other things, plus general waffle from a strange mind.

'A titan' The Scotsman.

Aug 16-30 17.35 (18.25) Free (no ticket required)

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ED BYRNE: ON THE ROAD 'He has his audience in stitches - they roared their approval at the end - it does not come better than this!' The Stage 'The word 'masterful' in this case is no overstatement' 5 Stars The Scotsman.

TOTAL SELL OUT 96,97,98.

Aug 6,7,9-12,15,16 22.00 (23.00) £ 10.00 (£7.00) Aug 13,14 22.00 (23.00) £ 11.00 (£8.00)

JASON BYRNE

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JASON BYRNE The major success of I998's festival returns with more break-neck speed, innovative and hilarious comedy. Witness the sheer genius that is Jason Byrne and see why he's taken the industry by storm.

THE name for the 90's. Book early.

Aug 4-8,10-12,15-19,22,24-26 20.35 (21.35) £7.50 (£6.50) Aug 13,14,20,21,27-30 20.35 (21.35) £8.50 (£7.50) 17

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★ THE SMILING ASSASSINS Caustic satire and scathing songs updated daily by the writer/performer team behind NEWSREVUE. Sassy sketches come thick and fast in this original and outrageously irreverent show.

'Slicker than a barrel of oil' Scotsman. 'Seriously professional' Time Out. Aug 6-30 (not 15) 12.15(13.05) £6.00 (£5.00)

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★ ■ ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN and does. It’s STRANGER THAN TRUE when THE PRINCE OF NY reading JUNK MAIL on a VERTICAL COMMUTE meets three BARBIES in their playroom.Their TERMS: PAYOFF or STOP MEETING LIKE THIS. eDgY CoMedY.Ten Minute Theatre Originals.

Aug 9-21 (not IS) 11.30 (13.00) £5.00 (£4.50) ★ CONCEPTION by Steven Lyons: As with everything else in life, experience is the best teacher. A reluctant husband making a case to his wife against fatherhood, suddenly realizes his 'fear of family' could become a reality.

Deliciously sexy rib-tickling comedy.

Aug 9-21 (not 15) 13.10(13.50) £3.50 (£3.00)

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■ THIS WAY UP After 98s triumphant 'Between a Rock...', Footlights return with Cal McCrystal, director of 'Mighty Boosh' (Perrier winners 1998), Peepolykus and Mel and Sue, to present a magical, musical, nautical sketch comedy. 'Exudes exuberance' Independent. 'Impressive performances' Guardian.

Previews Aug 4,5 18.00 (19.00) £5.00 Aug 6-8,10-12,15-19,22,23,25,26 18.00 (19.00) £7.00 (£5.00) Aug 13,14,20,21,27-30 18.00 (19.00) £8.00 (£6.00)

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KEN CAMPBELL An hour of free-association, anecdote and face-pulling with 'the funniest solo act in British theatre - a brilliant performer with a terrific comic talent' The Express.'Hilariously anarchic' The Times.

'Inspired - the man is a genius' Daily Telegraph.

Aug 8-12, 15-19, 22-26, 29 20.50 (21.50) £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 6,7,13,14,20,21,27,28 20.50 (21.50) £9.00 (£7.00) Suitable for ages 13+

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SCOTT CAPURRO'S FOWL PLAY Neither death threats from his greatest fans, nor his own pathetically needy suicide attempts, can stop this addictively funny comic from scouring Edinburgh for the freshest white meat.

Open your coops, Scotland, and let the little birds enjoy Capurro's bits.

Aug 22-30 (not 24) 21.15 (22.15) £8.50

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CARLTON COMEDY WAREHOUSE An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman and a WAREHOUSE full of gags. Have a late night chortle courtesy of Carlton.

Aug 6-9,11,12,15,16,18,19,23,25,26,30 22.25 (23.25) £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 13,14,20-22,27,29 22.25 (23.25) £9.00 (£8.00)

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★ CRAIG CHARLES - STILL LIVE ON EARTH Star of Red Dwarf and 'Robot Wars’ appears at the Edinburgh Festival direct after his sell-out UK tour.

'Among the best live comedians in the country' NME. Book early!

Aug 24,25 22.30 (23.30) £ 12.00 (£ 10.00)

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Venue 106 - Christie's Comedy Cellar, 27-31 West Port, Grassmarket Tickets 228 3765 ■ BIG WORD PERFORMANCE POETRY The charismatic cabaret that destroys staid notions of poetry1 Evening Standard. The ultimate cure for the versophobic1 Scotsman. 'You have to see Big Word live - the audience love it' Elle. 3-act show. 'Superb' The List.

Aug 6-30 18.45 (20.05) £5.00 (£4.00)

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■ BOTTLE & MANGO Returning dolphin fresh to Edinburgh from London's stand-up circuit, they'll hold a shotgun to your head until you give them your children. 'Post-Python... buzzing with ingeniously weird ideas' The List. 'Excellent' The Stage.

Aug 6-11 21.00 (21.50) £4.00 (£3.50) Aug 12-24 21.00 (21.50) £5.00 (£4.00) RAYMOND MEARNS HITS THE BIG TIME Following the huge success of his 1998 debut Fringe show, the star of the BAFTA award-winning Channel 4 film 'Home' is back. Come and see why he draws comparisons with Billy Connolly.

Aug 15-30 20.45 (21.55) £5.00 (£4.00)

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■ ASHLEY STORRIE -WHAT WEREYOU DOING WHEN YOU WERE 13? Probably not working with Jerry Sadowitz, Ken Loach, Phil Kay or Rob Newman.The UK's youngest professional comic and celebrity guests and their childhoods. 'Loads of talent' Sun. 'Star' Herald.

Aug 22-30 14.45 (15.35) £5.00 (£4.00)

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DANIEL KITSON AND LEE CANTERBURY ARE THE MONKEY TOUCHERS Two funny buggers with a winning blend of 'stuff. 'The one to watch out for this year' Stage. 'Too young to be this talented' Time Out. 'I felt sick' Barry Cryer.

Previews Aug 6,7 21.15 (22.15) £4.00 Aug 9-30 (not 15,22) 21.15 (22.15) £6.00 (£5.00) ANDREW MURRELL IN DREADLOCKS & FOOTLIGHTS A comedy on the Fringe of Fringe Theatre, presented by a comedian on the Fringe using the word Fringe far too much. This comedy genius is the 'comedy professor' John 'Dipsy' Simmit,Teletubbies.

Previews Aug 6,7 19.45 (20.45) £4.00 Aug 9-30 (not 15,22) 19.45 (20.45) £6.00 (£5.00) ■ CHAMBERS & NETTLETON - TWO FORTHE PRICE OF ONE Two girls, surreal stand-up, Northern banter, sketches and songs in a show that wraps you in a warm rug and then pulls it out from under you.

Previews Aug 6,7 18.15 (19.15) £4.00 Aug 9-30 (not 15,22) 18.15 (19.15) £6.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 13+ MALLORY AND MR FLUTE An irresponsible act of beastliness brings our sordid interests to Edinburgh. We invite the stinking unwashed, and socially inadequate to partake in an evening of illicit pleasure. 'A lovely, shining, hirsute of mirth' Time Out. Aug 9-30 (not 15,22) 22.45 (23.45) £6.00 (£5.00)

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DON'T LOOK AT MY SISTER... INNIT! One Nation' in association with Watermans. Asian comedy company poke a finger in the eye of all that Asian tradition holds dear. Ten times funnier than Goodness Gracious Me' The Chronicle.

'Awesome' The Guardian.

Aug 9-28 (not Suns) 21.00 (22.00) £6.00 (£5.00) FALLING FROM GRACE Written by a shrink and a bunch of accountants, this musical comedy revue paints an alternative picture of the somewhat overhyped and barely important fin de siecle in which mankind finds itself as the new millennium approaches.

Aug 9-14 22.30 (23.30) £6.00 (£5.00)

Poster so good you want to wear it?

T-shirts & Fringe memorabilia can be found in the Fringe shop -180 High Street, Royal Mile

THE FUNJABI SHOW The fun-nomenal curried clowns in a late-night look at Asian culture. 'Web' your appetite - check out www.funjabis.com Aug 23-28 23.30 (00.30) £6.00 (£5.00)

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Gary Newbon 6 - 30 (except 16th) August '99 9pm at The Holyrood Tavern, Holyrood Road, Edinburgh EH1 Tickets E5/E4.50

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sell-out 91 "Highly recommended...irresistable...teetering on the edge of Python-scale acclaim" Evening Standard

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THE COMEDY SUPERMARKET Comedy to suit all tastes at a price you can afford. Select your comedy from a range of over fifty items, all delivered by memetic engineer Tony Hindle. Guaranteed a different show every night.

Aug 8-29 21.00 (22.00) £3.00 (£2.00) THE COMEDY ZONE Venue 33 - Pleasance,60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550

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THE COMEDY ZONE Starring Dan Antopolski 'highly skilled' Melody Maker, Tony Law 'always funny' Pulse, Lucy Porter 'rising star' Big Issue and Rob Rouse 'outstanding' Scotsman, Edinburgh's 'favourite late-night cabaret' Guardian returns for its 9th successive year. Sell out '90-'98. Book early.

Previews Aug 4-6 23.05 (00.45) £4.00 Aug 7-9,11,12,15-19,22,23,25,26 23.05 (00.45) £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 13,14,20,21 23.05 (00.45) £8.50 (£7.50) Aug 27-30 23.05 (00.45) £9.00 (£8.00) SEAN CULLEN Venue 33 - Pleasance,60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550

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SEAN CULLEN:WORM LOVER 1998 Perrier Nominee Sean Cullen returns for a limited run, bringing more musical strangeness and surreal improvisation. He loves worms and he'll tell you why. See him before he's devoured by serpents. 'Chimps follow him' Tarzan.

Aug 17 20.30 (21.30) £1.00 Aug 18,19,22-26 20.30 (21.30) £7.50 (£6.50) Aug 20,21,27-30 20.30 (21.30) £8.50 (£7.50) DAINTY DISHES Venue 28 - Greyfriars Kirk House, Candlemaker Row Tickets 225 3626

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★ ■ PATTERCAKE BLUES Down in 'A Slice of Life', its not just the cake that's rising. Jan and Lou do battle over who has the finest cheesecake of them all. Remember, leave to cool for an hour before eating.

Aug 9-15 18.10(19.10) £4.50 (£3.50) Aug 17-21 13.35 (14.35) Aug 24-30 17.25 (18.25)

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★ LIVE BAIT Fresh from sell-out London residency, D&P present new selection of sketches, characters and comic oddities. Featuring 'The Alien Fruit Testers', 'Wicker Man - the Musical' and the Benelux's extreme sports experts - 'Josh 'n' Tosh'. 'Outrageously Good' Daily Express.

Previews Aug 4-6 17.45 (18.45) £3.50 Aug 7,8,10-12,15-19,22,24-26 17.45 (18.45) £6.00 (£5.00) Aug 13,14,20,21,27-30 17.45 (18.45) £7.00 (£6.00) OMID DJALILI Venue 33 - Pleasance,60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550

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★ OMID DJALILI returns after one-year exile. Sell out '95, '96, '97.

The scumbag hero of 'The Mummy' is back with a lightning fast new comedy show. 'Very, very funny' Scotsman, 'Omid Djalili is unmissable' Independent.

Book early! Performing in Pleasance Over the Road.

Previews 4,5 22.35 (23.35) £4.00 Aug 6-8,10-12,15-19,22,24-26 22.35 (23.35) £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 13,14,20,21,27-30 22.35 (23.35) £9.00 (£8.00) Venue 72 - The Queen's Hall. Clerk Street Tickets 668 2019/cc 667 7776

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★ OMID DJALILI - QUEEN'S HALL SPECIAL From channel 4 s cult series 'Coming Soon' and warden in 'The Mummy' this one-off special from the world's only middle eastern stand-up will feature outlandish dancing and superfluous Godzilla-sound effects. 'Simply magnificent' The Times.

Aug 23 22.30 (23.30) £9.00 (£8.00) THE DURHAM REVUE Venue 47 - The Cafe Royal, 17 West Register Street Tickets 556 2549

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* FRESH FROM THE ECLIPSE Connect yourself to a twilight umbilicalcord of dry verbal bullying, as the Durham Revue tread the comedy tightrope between genius and insanity. Sketches to die for. 'More than sexual' Elton John.

'The people's comedy' Tony Blair.

Aug 15-28 00.30 (01.20) £5.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 13+ DYBALL AND KERR Venue 82 - Komedia @ Southside, 117 Nicolson Street Tickets 667 2212

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MEN If you're a man, or know someone who is, then MEN will speak to you.

Dyball & Kerr expose the emotional half-life of the modern male in this brutally funny new character comedy. 'Set to be big. Go and see them.' The Scotsman.

Aug 6-29 17.25 (18.25) £7.00 (£5.00) EDDIE AND BUNTY PRODUCTIONS IN ASSOC.WITH MESHUGANEH ENT Venue 78 - The Ark, 3 Semple Street Tickets 229 7733 ■ EXPOSED Confrontational comedy at its wildest. Original, outrageous characters are confronted by their host in a glitzy, brazen and hysterical spectacle. You'll be screaming in your seats. Definite Perrier Awards contender.

Aug 23-28 (not 27) 21.00 (22.00) £6.00 (£4.00) Aug 27,28 14.00 (15.30) EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY THEATRE COMPANY

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Aug 4-8,10-12,15-19,22,24-26 17.00 (18.00) £7.50 (£6.50) Aug 13,14,20,21,27-30 17.00 (18.00) £8.50 (£7.50) SIMON EVANS Venue 33 - Pleasance,60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550

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Observational comedy at its very best' Dan Rider.The Scotsman.

'Perfectly honed' Time Out. Warning. May contain bones.

Previews Aug 4,5 17.05 (18.05) £4.00 Aug 6-9,11,12,15,16,18,19 17.05 (18.05) £7.00 (£6.00) Aug 13,14,20,21 17.05 (18.05) £8.00 (£7.00)

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■ LIFE, LOVE, SEX AND DEATH... AND OTHER WORKS IN PROGRESS Hysterical monologues, soulful skits and intermittent go-go dancing, Stevie Jay paints a wild picture of REAL LIFE with personal, uncensored stories about relationships, sex and grocery shopping.

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Aug 6-22 (not 16) midnight (01.00) £7.00 (£5.00)

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FLUFFY BROTHERS/MICHAEL TOMBS Fast-paced, sketches and stand-up comedy from an exciting double act. 'Fresh, innovative and very funny' Jonathon Ross. Michael Tombs is the 'King of the one-liner...l laughed more than I have in years' Fosseway.

Aug 6-30 (not 16) 22.00 (23.05) £6.00 (£5.00)

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FOUR GIMPS AND A PIMP A comedy variety show featuring five different characters from BBC TV and Channel 4 comedian Valentine Flyguy. 'Valentine Flyguy is set to rocket' Stage & Television, '...the audience filed out in noisy joyousness' The Scotsman.

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Back by demand! 'The show's no-budget slaps a grin on the face from the outset and prompts near-hysteria... A pi**-take that wont upset the devotees' The List.

Aug 7,8,11,13-15,18,20,21,25,27,28 23.00 (midnight) £5.00 Aug 7,14,21,28 11.00 (12.00) £5.00 (C £2.00) Suitable for ages 6+ ★ 3 X STEVE MARTIN (PATTER FOR THE FLOATING LADY GUILLOTINE - THE ZIG-ZAG WOMAN) A melding of circus, cabaret and Grand Guignol. Martin, a theatrical conjuror, stirs the plots with wizardry and surprises. All three plays are Fringe premieres.

Aug 10,12,17,19,24,26 23.30 (00.15) £5.00

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Aug 9-21 (not Suns) 18.00 (19.00) £5.00 (£4.00)

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SHAKERS RESTIRRED After stunning Oxford, four waitress beauties arrive in Edinburgh to present this exhilarating classic, aided by an awardwinning company. A hilariously cringeworthy, yet thought-provoking experience, it is a celebration of the banal that is anything but.

Aug 9-30 (not 16,23) 16.45 (17.45) £6.00 (£4.00)

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AT LAST! IT'S WAR, FAMINE, DEATH & PESTILENCE Thrill! to worldwide destruction! Marvel! at civilisation's last gasp! Leave! the theatre!

Have! a drink with! your mates! 'Elegantly written' The Stage. 'The best thing I saw in Edinburgh '98' Harry Enfield.

Aug 6-30 (not 16) 19.45 (20.45) £7.00 (£6.00) Suitable for ages 12+ MARLENE! LIVEiTONITE! Sadly Ms. Dietrich is unable to appear. At the last minute: Stroud's very own Blue Angel! A wholly inappropriate homage to cabaret. 'Woos the audience... a very unusual use of the recorder' Jermaine Ivrey.

Aug 6-30 (not 16) 15.00 (16.00) £6.50 (£5.50) Suitable for ages 12+

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Gawp through the electric windows of their observations. Be comforted by their shock-absorbing humanity. Listen to 'Radio Porn', 'Spoon Theatre' and 'Nuns pic'. It's such a gas.

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★ LAS VEGAS AT LARGE Dancing slot machines, gender confusing encounters, singing buffet food, the all-or-nothing stakes for two hapless out-of-towners seduced by the most infamous city in the world.

Hundred to one odds for jackpot laughs!

Aug 7-30 (not 16,23,24) 12.25 (13.30) £5.00 (£4.00) ★ WEHO Somewhere between Melrose Place and Beverly Hills 90210 is a neighbourhood more dramatic, exciting and dangerous. Some call it West Hollywood...we call it WeHo. Sex, scandal, tight shirts, 'Priceless, uproarious...raucous laughter' Frontiers 'a late-night hoot' Backstage West.

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JASON FREEMAN: SHINY SIDE UP, DIRTY SIDE DOWN Rheumy-eyed and grubby he ain't. Mrs. Freeman's youngest knows the Scoobys from the Doos. Luck on every finger, advice for one-and-all, he's up to something. 'Cadaverous and cool, the boy has charisma' Express.

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Aug 4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30 17.15 (18.15) £5.00 (£4.00) Double Bill Price (with Somehow I Feel Dirty) £8.00 (£6.00) Suitable for ages 13+

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DAVE FULTON Laid back, sharp, cynical, ironic American comedian.'Cheeky, off the cuff stuff. Laugh out loud funny. A hit from the moment he walks on stage' Evening Standard. 'This comic giant has something to say' Guardian.

Aug 6-12,15-19,23-26 23.30 (00.30) £9.00 (£8.00) Aug 13,14,20-22,27-29 23.30 (00.30) £ 10.00 (£9.00)

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A TALE OF TWO TENTING The world premiere of John Hegley's dramatic work follows John and Tony through a bizarre adventure of self-exploration and basic scouting, combining the best of Hegley's infectious comic writing with fresh-faced physical comedy.

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★ ■ LOOKING FOR LOVE by Fabiola Crudeli.The clock ticks towards 2000 for two sisters divided by lifestyle. Can they be united in their search for love? Everyone can follow the high drama of this fierce Italian-language comedy.

'Commedia brillante' Corriere.

Aug 15-20 01.45 (02.45) £5.00 (£4.00) inc.Ameretto

WOMEN IN COMEDY Gilded Balloon presents the best women stand-ups performing in the U.K. with Lynn Ferguson, '...delightfully silly' Financial Times.

Aug 6-12 19.00 (20.30) £8.00 (£7.00) IMPRO PREMIER CREW Once again the best improvisation team are back starring Stephen Frost, Andy Smart, Jim Sweeney, Steve Steen and Richard Vranch.They're fast, they're funny! You name it, they'll do it. Don't name it, they'll still do it. Really.

Aug 13-30 (not 15,21,22,29) 19.00 (20.30) £8.50 (£7.50) STEVE FROST’S PUB QUIZ Steve Frost's famous pub quiz gets his famous friends to ask the questions, you make a team and give the answers.

Join Steve in a pub quiz to remember. Prizes galore!

Aug 15,22,29 19.00 (20.30) £8.00 (£7.00) SCARED WEIRD LITTLE GUYS ARE SCARED IN AMERICA Australia's popular musical duo have been to the States and have a tale to tell a tale so heart-rending, nail-biting, finger-lickin', gun-toting and out-and-out hilarious that you have to see it for yourself!

Aug 6-30 20.45 (21.45) £8.50 (£7.50) MATT KING - SEMI-AUTOMATIC Join Matt King as he explores the trashy side of life in his new live action game show. Each week a guest panel will be tested on rapid fire questions of popular culture to determine whether they are clever or thick.

Aug 6,11,30 22.00 (23.00) £8.00 (£7.00) CHICK'S CHAT Janei Anderson and Julia Morris warn 'Stop It! You're hurting My Feelings' God they love to chat, you can't shut them up. Watch as they put Festival stars in the hotseat and B.B.Q. them.. 'Cult Hit' Melbourne Comedy Festival.

Aug 7,12 22.00 (23.00) £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 22,30 23.15 (00.15) PHIL KAY has joined us again with his ever-changing one man show.

Every night is different - prepare to be involved.

Aug 13-28 22.00 (23.00) £9.00 (£8.00) LATE 'N' LIVE The Gilded Balloon's flagship show with the pick of late night entertainment. Insane mix of the best comics, comperes and bands.

Aug 6-30 01.00 (04.00) £ 11.00 (£9.00) THE ARTHUR DUNG SHOW presents a wild safari of fun featuring three of the festival's brightest stars. Dave Lamb of Radio Four's The Cheese Shop, 'Goodness, Gracious Me'. Jim North: 'unhinged psychosis... tipped for Perrier nomination' Observer. Nick Walker: 'Something extraordinary' Independent.

Aug 6-30 (not 17,24) 16.30 (17.30) £7.00 (£6.00)

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★ RICHARD VRANCH IN IMEXICO! Come on holiday to Mexico with Richard Vranch (Comedy Store Players, Whose Line?). Sun, sea, sand. Laugh.

Love. Learn Spanish. Mayans and Mescal.Tequila and tortillas. Funerals, fiestas and Volkswagens. Fringe regular since 1979. 'He's funny' Times.

Aug 6-30 17.45 (18.45) £7.00 (£6.00) GERALDINE MCNULTY: GREATEST HITS See all your favourite McNulty characters in one show. 'McNulty dives into a procession of off-beat characters that are wildly funny' Time Out. 'You'll be devastated if you miss her' Herald. 'McNulty's characterisations are ferociously funny' Daily Mail.

Aug 6-30 19.00 (20.00) £7.50 (£6.50) ★ SNAG: A SENSITIVE NEW AGE GUY byTobsha Learner. A rollercoaster ride into the condom-dad world of single life. Sydney Festival HIT. Aug 6-30 14.30 (15.30) £6.50 (£5.50) ★ DANCE WITH ME (BE MINE) New comedy play, nominated for Dennis Potter New Writing Award. A weekend in the country. Love, auto-pleasure, a trust game gone wrong. 'Fast-paced, slickly surreal, the laughs keep coming...'

The Scotsman. As seen on BBC 2's Comedy Nation.

Aug 6-30 (not 17,25) 15.45 (16.50) £7.00 (£6.00) ORANGE GIRLS Set in a 'Shyness Centre', three girls clad in orange perform eccentric, exciting and original comedy characters written (and performed) by Miranda Hart - 'the Joyce Grenfell of the 90's' Scotsman. Don't miss it.

'The future is Orange Girls' Scotsman.

Aug 6-12 17.15(18.15) £7.00 (£6.00) Aug 13-30 14.15(15.15) ★ SWEENEY AND STEEN IN DANNY'S WAKE by Jim Sweeney.

Last seen at the Balloon in 1990 with their improvised whodunit 'Play by Ear' ('hilarious' Scotsman, 'hysterically funny' Evening News) - they return with a play about coffins and the people in them.

Aug 13-30 17.15(18.15) £7.50 (£6.50) Aug 21 19.00 (20.30) £8.00 (£7.00) Sweeney & Steen's 25th Anniversary ★ COUNT ARTHUR STRONG & TERRY TITTER: YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN'YET!' Arthur and Terry have, for the first time in 30 years, due to an onstage disagreement at the Bradford Alhambra, shaken hands and bring you the show that graced a thousand stages.

Aug 6-30 (not 16,23) 18.30 (19.30) £7.00 (£6.00) GREG FLEET IS SCARY Greg Fleet is back and he's scary. Every man wishes that he was scary and make you quake with fear. Fleety is clearly not the least bit scary - his poster is terrifying. ***** 'Greg Fleet is brilliant' The Scotsman.

Aug 6-30 21.00 (22.00) £7.50 (£6.50) THE MIDNIGHT SHOW The show which presents the best up and coming comedians featuring David Kay ('brilliantly wry tales' Stage), Colin Ramone ('hilarious... the funniest gags' Scotland on Sunday), Drew Barr ('sharp dresser, sharp wit' The Independent).

Aug 6-30 midnight (01.15) £8.00 (£6.00) ★ A STAR IS TORN To many Jacqueline Pearce is Servalan, star of the long running TV series Blake’s 7.Then she went to Hollywood. She was going to be an overnight sensation. 'It's been a very long night!' Not so much stand-up comedy as stand-up tragedy - with laughs.

Aug 6-30 13.00 (14.15) £7.00 (£6.00) MCDOUGALL & DONKIN -THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT Australian backpackers Nolene and Jolene need a bed. Brigadier Sergeant and Sergeant Briggs need recruits. Octogenarians Joan and Sheila need the toilet.

Sassy sketches from bright new double act.

Aug 6-12 14.15(15.15) £6.00 (£5.00) SPARKLING Following their sell-out 'Keep Young and Beautiful', Susan and Janice return with a viciously funny new sketch show. Cutting edge character comedy intercut with the backstage antics of a couple of crazies. 'Hilarious' Stage. 'Impeccable' Scotsman. 'Comedy Perfected' List Aug 6-30 17.00 (18.00) £7.00 (£6.00)

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ASTEROID HAEMORRHOID Wendy Lloyd (Radio I, Little Picture Show), Lizzie Roper (Lenny Beige's Regency Rooms). Alien Abduction? Just sassy, grownup, disillusioned bullshit! Forget Po-faced X-files... this is where to party like it's 1999. 'Filthy Whores!' Phil Kay. Aug 6-30 (not 9,16,23) 18.15 (19.30) £7.00 (£6.00) ADAM HILLS - MY OWN LITTLE WORLD A spectacular supernova of a comic' Forth FM. After an extended run in Edinburgh '98, Adam's back with a brand new show. Sundays with a sign interpreter. 'Thank God for Adam Hills *****' Evening News.

Previews Aug 6-8 19.45 (20.45) £5.00 (£4.00) Aug 9-30 19.45 (20.45) £7.00 (£6.00) DARA O BRIAIN (WITH SPECIAL GUEST DEIRDRE O'KANE) The best stand-up from 'the fresh new talent to watch in 1999' Irish Times.

'I refuse to believe that Dara is destined for anything other than major stardom... too classy for words' The Stage.

Preview Aug 6 21.00 (22.00) £5.00 (£4.00) Aug 9-30 (not 17) 21.00 (22.00) £7.00 (£6.00) REG AND JOE'S CHRISTMAS SPECIAL Wow at their expert improvisational skills, marvel at their stunning comic style and wonder how the hell did these guys ever get a Fringe venue anyway? 'Engagingly hilarious' The List. 'Charming ineptitude' Scotsman.

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Aug 6-30 23.15 (00.15) £7.00 (£6.00) Venue 101 - Gilded Balloon at La Belle Angele, 11 Hasties Cl, off Guthrie St Tix226 2151 K12 BABYeyesWANTS CANDY A hilarious musicalby this one-act is created before your a single audience suggestion critically acclaimed group fromfrom Aug 6-29 18.Chicago.

30 (19.45) £7.00 (£6.00) FURTHER TED from Joe Rooney and Patrick McDonnell (akabagFr. ofDammo Lennon and Eoincharacters McLove TV's 'offering Father Ted' ) present a mixed stand-up, songs, and slides, a comical look into the minds of two unique6-30rural21.15 Irishmen.

Aug (22.15) £7.50 (£6.50) Venue 139 - Gilded Balloon at The Honeycomb, 36 Blair Street Tickets 226 2151 KI2 WHO HELL IS CATHY DUNNING? Whomessing cares? She doesn' t!

AllSo come she THE knows is there’s loads of comedy characters with her head. playOut. with her and her imaginary friends.. ’Excellent’ The Guardian Very funnyand113.Time Aug 6-30 30 (14.30) £6.50 (£5.50) FRIDAYabout NIGHT WORLD

by Trevor AA★ comedy lifeabout atATtheTHE end ofEND the OF week,THE at the end of the century.Lock. meaningless play nothing.

Unbelievable characters in contrived situations that to reality, Aug bear 6-30no17.resemblance 00 (18.15) £6.50 (£5.50)talking rubbish and pretending to have sex.

MATTit.KING lecture in History a man whoJoinknows little about yearB.C. Matt'is ashistory. show Beastly washeatfrom a great success. him very this year onexcitement a trippyLasttrip through Feel the of the Viking Invasion, the of a pirate the strange softness of wearing a Roman toga.

Aug 6-17 20.45 (21.45)raid£7.00and(£6.00) WILL ANDERSON WILLENIUM What you do ifGary the world was endingfourth in oneyearhour?andReturn love'owould ornetrack Needham from beat himto those with ayou shovel? of thedown nation's finest comedic talents.'

Adelaide Advertiser Aug 6-30 22.30 (23.30) £7.00 (£6.00) GILDED BALLOON ATTHE PALLADIUM 00©©0 Venue 26 - Gilded Balloon at the Palladium, Broughton Place Tickets 226 2151 GI4 Forthethegrand secondsurroundings year, GildedofBalloon brings an exciting and theeclectic programme toshows the Palladium.THE place for most memorable situated in the heart of the fashionable Broughton area.

■mind-bending JIM ROSE thrill CIRCUS: SECRETS OFofTHE is a psychological, ride, wherein Master manySTRANGE mystical ceremonies JimandRose leads and misleads a rapt audience on a journey rife with misunderstood mysterious achievements and exploits.

Aug 8-24 (not Weds) 20.45 (22.00) £9.50 (£8.50) BESThottest OF THE FEST - THE EDITION Why to Balloon see who are the tickets onbestthecomedy Fringe.EARLY Comeof 1999. and seeFiftywhopercent the wait Gilded predict8-12will22.15 be the(23.30) acts extra free.

Aug £8.50 (£7.50) Aug 13-17 23.45 (00.45) DYLAN - THEtheLAST GASP Theanddistinctive barking cough, the pallor MORAN kisseddrink,by always death, palsied bearing thethewheeze-riven are back.The half empty is clamped in spare claw. whisper The frail but(23.30) listen,£9.50 listen(£8.50) to the horror.

Aug voice 13-17is 22.30 London'bys singing most exclusive and talkedDarley, about cabaret club comes to■on RATPACK Edinburgh. sensation will comedy be joined stage byfollow theHosted veryby dancing brightesttillnames fromOliver the worlds ofwho cabaret, and music, late.

Aug 18-30 22.30 (01.00) £ 10.50 (£9.50)

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‘Cheeky off the cuff stuff. Laugh out loud funny.

A hit from the moment he walks on stage’ EVENING STANDARD ‘This comic giant has something to say’ SHE GUARDIAN ^

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ASSEMBLY ROOMS 0131 226 2428 7:20PM WILDMAN ROOM 6-30 AUGUST The ObserverAssembly in association with Mary Tobin presents “.sheer brilliance, inventiveness and musical humour’’ DB Magazine Buster Keaton’s

Comedy and Revue GLASS TALISMAN OOQOO Venue 28 - Greyfriars Kirk House, Candlemaker Row Tickets 225 3626 Kl I ★Funny REELlikeSTORIES Four actors, one line-up, no coincidence.

Funny how? we amuse you?

Better believe it!

With tongues placed firmly in cheeks we a century cinema£5.00 classics.

Funnier than Full Suitable Metal Jacket.

Augflick9-21through (not 16) 23.10 of(00.20) (£4.00) for ages 12+ DAVE GORMAN S BETTER WORLD ®0©©0 Venue 33 - Pleasance, 60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550 LI4 DAVE GORMAN’S BETTER 1 WORLD Plan: Advertise anonymously: ’How can I improve the world?

Collect replies.

Carry out suggestions.

Tell audience.

No-one elseinnovation would doain’tit. dead’ No-oneHerald. else could.

Astounding: Fringe Sell-outBAFTA 95-98.winning writer.

Previews Aug 4-6 19.15(20.15) £4.00 Aug 7-9,11,12,15-19,22,23,25,26 5 (20.15) £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 13,14,20,21 19.15 (20.15) £8.5019.1(£7.50) Aug 27-30 19.15 (20.15) £9.00 (£8.00) BOOTHBY GRAFFOE 00©©0 Venue 33 - Pleasance, 60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550 LI4 BOOTHBY GRAFFOE '. .outLowest common-denominator humour' List. '...

Sketches that wouldn' t look of place at the end of a Channel 5 schedule on'A quality a weakactnight'thatList.' ... every Mediocre List.'... Interminable' . is, as(21.00) yearmaterial' before, heartily recommended'ListList.

Aug 14,20,21 20.00 £8.50 (£7.50) Aug 15-19,22,23,25,26 Aug 27-30 20.00 (21.00) 20.00 £9.00(21.00) (£8.00) £8.00 (£7.00) STEVEN ALAN GREEN ©O©©© Venue 47 - The Cafe Royal, 17 West Register Street Tickets 556 2549 112 VIAGRA FALLS! (HOO-HA!) Back by popular demand, a unique American blend of Groucho Marx and Tom Lehrer, legendary comedian Steven Alan Green takes no prisoners. He's still addicted to showbiz but every show is his last.

So...be Aug 5-30there!!23.00 (00.15) £7.00 (£5.50) GREEN MAN PRODUCTIONS ®0©©0 Venue 84 - Holyrood Tavern, Holyrood Road Tickets 557 4972 K13 ★'bright ■ WASHED IN MANY WATERS no end to this talent' Daily Telegraph, raw comedy' The Times.

Delight in a tour de force on the further shores ofAugcabaret.

Scintillating gritty,Tim by thefortail.ages 12+ 6-15,23-29 18.10 yet(19.10) £5.00 Thomas (£4.00) grabs life wickedly Suitable STEVE GRIBBIN ®0©©0 Venue 139 - Gilded Balloon at The Honeycomb, 36 Blair Street Tickets 226 2151 K12 ■discovery STEVEthrough GRIBBIN I'M TURNING INTO MYsex,DAD. Oneandman’s voyage of the choppy waters of class, death fry-ups. you the laughbackaloud' ''yMou'akell6-30 feel of myGuardian. hand'(£7.50) . Come along or as Steve's Dad would say Aug 19.00 (20.00) £8.50

fcjkfcwiotiMttlWPcaM* 1k?ibI W> - M tfaurt M & 24Ht) 'AFM.ICKTION' [If Two classic comedies on the big screen with LIVE accompaniment from the ingenious Blue Grassy Knoll The Assembly Rooms 10th - 14th August 6.30 pm 17th - 27th August 10.00 pm Box Office: 0131 226 2428

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THE NATURAL THEATRE COMPANY A sophisticatedpresents musical tea party complete with cucumber sandwiches

Featuring 4 stars, Margaret Oswick her nephew, Penkivil.

23-29 August 11.00am & 3.00pm £8.00 (£7.00) Fringe Box Office: 0131 226 5138 Please await Lady Margaret’s Limousine arrival outside the hotel

"Sophisticated, slick, from the heart...

The Comedy Departments of LWT, Granada j Television and Yorkshire/TTTV are searching for a winner of their UNIQUE PRIZE FOR COMEDY WRITING at the Edinburgh Fringe.

THE AWARD: £1000 The Granada Media Comedy Writing Trophy and a commission to develop a script for television The panel of judges is headed by PAUL SPENCER Controller of Comedy and Entertainment, Yorkshire Television The winner will be anounced in The Daily Diary on Wednesday August 25th, following the judges’ decision on Monday August 23rd.

,o.isW'*NE'KS; rR1u?u ^ l ""pfV MUSICAL STAND-UP AT ITS BEST! SELL-OUT SHOW'S8!

GILDED BALLOON @ LA BELLE ANGELE (Venue 101) 8pm 6th-30th Aug £7/£6 cone. Box Office: 0131 226 2151 32

RICH33 -HALL LEE556CRENSHAW ©O©©0 Venue Pleasance,AKA 60The PleOTIS asance Tickets 6550 LI4 RICH AKAOtisOTIS LEE CRENSHAW LastExpress. year's'Gsurprise Festival hit. 'creation' Rich HallHALL isSundoy funny, is, if possible, even funnier' reat comic The only ever imprisoned for involuntary bigamy.

AllPreviews new songs.

All4,5Times. bourbon soaked.man Aug 22.15 (23.15) £3.00 Aug 22.15 (23.15) £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 6-9,11,12,15,17-19,22-26 13,14,20,21,27-30 22.15 (23.15) £9.00 (£8.00) THE HARD AND FAST THEATRE COMPANY ®0©©O Venue 19 - C, Over-Seas House, 100 Princes Street Tickets 225 5105 110 ★Millie■ HOLD UPSshowShunyouthewhytrivial, embrace theinfrivolous and allow &Tillie to they are smiling this energetic, inventive, quirky and ever-so-dirty comedy.

Jodphurs, lipstick, orange carpet and the bludgeoning to death of Ally McBeal.

Aug 4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30 13.45 (14.35) £5.00 (£4.00) HATTIE HAYRIDGE 0O©©O Venue 3 - Assembly Rooms, 54 George Street Tickets 226 2428 111 HATTIE HAYRIDGE New show from Red Dwarfs female Holly, ' o ne of comediennes, whose shy wit masks razorHattie edgedrops humoura 'Britain’s Daily Mailfavourite 'Rightyour when it looks to kiss ayou, tarantula down pants' Time15like(17.15) Out.she's about Aug 6-12,15-19,23-26,30 16. £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 13,14,20-22,27-29 16.15 (17.15) £9.00 (£8.00) VIC HENLEY ®0©©0 Venue 3 - Assembly Rooms, 54 George Street Tickets 226 2428 111 VIC HENLEY Edinburgh debut of a good ' o le boy from Alabama.

Hottest topical comedian out of America since Bi l Hicks.

Redneck humour with wit that stormed the 'Stand-Up Show' (21.45) and They Think(£8.00) It's All Over'.Y'all will have a ball!

Aug 6-12,15-19,23-26 Aug 13,14,20-22,27-29 20.45 20.45 (21.45) £9.00 £10.00 (£9.00) RAINER HERSCH ®0©©O Venue 33 - Pleasance, 60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550 LI4 ★EXPLAINED:THE ■ RAINER HERSCH CONDUCTS ALL CLASSICAL MUSIC ORCHESTRA! The virtuoso comedian returns with a brand new and feastthose of musical mayhem - his very own orchestra.

Symphonies, concertos bits youEvening neverNews. knew the name of - all ruined before your very ears. ' T ruly delightful' Previews Aug 5,6 17.00 (18.00)17.0£6.00 Aug 7-10,12,13,16-20,24-26 0 (18.00) £8.50 (£7.50) Aug 14,15,21,22,27-30 17.00 (18.00) £9.50 (£8.50) Suitable for ages 15+

‘DAZZLINGLY INGENIOUS ...BRIUIANT1Y OBSERVED’ THE SCOTSMAN+*+* ‘IT’S AN ABSOLUTE HOOT JRREPRESSIBLE’ THE NEW YORK TIMES Wed 25 - Mon 30 Aue 8.45PM (MATINEES SATURDAY t, SUNDAY AT 5.30pm) THE GILDED GALLOON at The Palladium sp'1 For acKels call 0131226 2151 or 0131226 5138

DOMINIC HOLLAND ®0©©0 Venue 33 - Pleasance, 60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550 LI4 DOMINIC HOLLAND ' H ave I Got News For You' , ' C live James' , ’Des O'hypeConnor' , Perrier Nominee, Perrier Best Newcomer.

Cut through the festival andeveryone. enjoy. 'B'Trilliantly observed material' plague op notch stand-up everyoneTimes shouldon the see' insecurities Telegraph. that Preview Aug 5 20.00 (21.00) £3.00 Aug Aug 6-8,10-12,15-19,22-26 13,14,20,21,27-30 20.0020.00 (21.00)(21.00)£9.00£8.00 (£8.00)(£7.00) HUDSON AND PEPPERDINE ®0©©0 Venue 33 - Pleasance,60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550 LI4 HUDSON AND PEPPERDINE Following I998' s smash hit, Beaver Pitch, Hudson andto present Pepperdine returnnewfromhoura year spent battling depression and rival girl gangsand of sketches and stand-up.

'Brilliantly written performed.a whole Go See!' 18.The40Scotsman.

Aug 4-8,10-12,15-19,22,24-26 (19.40) £7.50 (£6.50) Aug 13,14,20,21,27-30 18.40 (19.40) £8.50 (£7.50) HYPNOTIST HUGH LENNON AND HIS HYPNODOG OQ©©0 Venue 16 - Rocket Venue @Theatre Arts Centre, 10 Davie Street Tickets 667 6666 LI3 ■comedy HYPNOTIST HUGH LENNON AND HIS HYPNODOG A two-hour show featuring a dog that hypnotises people. ' T he fastest, most high-octane gut Suns) splitting21.30 120 (23.30) minute show Aug 9-28 (not £7.00 ever (£6.00)seen' The Scotsman.

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INDEPENDENT COUNTRY PRODUCTIONS ®0©@0 Venue 45 - Old St. Paul's Church & Hall,Jeffrey Street Tickets 556 0476 JI3 ★ SCOTLAND 2010: ANdevious?

INDEPENDENT COUNTRY! Will our politicians be less Will our lifestyle be more glamorous?

Will our snational football team eversurprising, win anything?

Yeah, right! and see Scotland' real future: sometimes often scary, alwaysCome hilarious!

Aug 6,7 22.00 (23.00) £4.50 (£3.50) Aug 9-28 (not Suns) 22.00 (23.00) £5.50 (£4.50) JAMJAR 0Q©00 Venue 28 - Greyfriars Kirk House, Candlemaker Row Tickets 225 3626 Kl I ★Shoelaces' INCIDENTALLY... or ' L ife with the Professor and How to Tie Your Own .

Dramatic, humorous, so full of hindsight.

A seen it, done it, bought-the-teacakeencounters. show, from history in the making to natural disasters and Augsupernatural 9-15 13.45 (14.45) £5.00 (£3.50) JAPAN EXPERIENCE 00©@0 Venue 81 - The Garage Theatre, Grindlay Court Centre, Grindlay Street Tickets 221 9009 K9 ■flower YOSHIKO, AN ORDINARY JAPANESE GIRL does tea ceremony, arrangement, calligraphy and Japanese dance like all good Japanese Toworldbecome international she learns English conversation.To know about thegirls. she comes to Edinburgh Fringe.

Performed by Migiwa, a not-so-ordinary Japanese Aug 8-30girl.13.00 (13.45) £5.00 (£4.00) DAVE JOHNS 0O©©O Venue 33 - Pleasance, 60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550 U4 ★ DAVE JOHNS - I'MDaveIN isTHE ATTIC MOTHER After last years critically acclaimed show, tricky back! ' Y ou laugh, because he' s funny, extremely funny' The Herald 'Just one man, a dirty hat, and great comedy' The Guardian.

Book early!

Preview Aug 4,5 20.45 (21.45) £4.00 Aug 6-12,15,17-19,22-26 20.45(21.45) (21.45)£8.50 £7.50(£7.50) (£6.50) Aug 13,14,20,21,27-30 20.45 PHILLJUPITUS 00©©0 Venue 3 - Assembly Rooms, 54 George Street Tickets 226 2428 111 PHILL JUPITUS Star of ' N ever Mind the Buzzcocks' but even better live. 'totally A superbbrilliant' comic...Guardian. masterNine of tangential gems' Independent. ' T otally in control, shows only. Catch him while you can.

Book20-22,27,28 early... it's a guaranteed sell-out.

Aug 20.30 (21.30) 11.00 (£ 10.00) Aug 23-26 20.30 (21.30) £ 10.00£(£9.00) LES KEEN ®0©©Q Venue 47 -The Cafe Royal, l7West Register Street Tickets 556 2549 112 LES KEEN IS ALL AT SEA Why not strap on your water wings and join the star of ' T he Stand Up Show' and ' L oose Ends' as he sails around the world.

APreview laugh with every19.15(20.15) line' EveningFreeStandard.

Aug 6-30Aug (not5 16,23) 19.15 (20.15) £5.00 (£4.00) THE126KEN OATH Venue - C cubed, St John'sTHEATRE Hall,West End, PrinCOMPANY ces Street Tickets 225 5105 ®0©©019 ★GirlsTHE- half-sisters SHERYLSall SAVE THE WORLD s answer called Sheryl - on and tourhisAustralia' in methane the Middle East toarethetheSpice world's only hope in thwarting a meglomaniac bomb.

'The scrubber-chicks from hell' Melbourne Times.

Aug 6-30 (not 12,18) 00.30 (01.40) £7.00 (£5.00) KIT AND THE WIDOW PRESENT 00©00 Venue 47 - The Cafe Royal, 17 West Register Street Tickets 556 2549 112 THE VERY WORST OF KIT AND THE WIDOW Later, and liver, thanin cheap imitations.

Join our pyjama party.

Sexual favours distributed to those night attire.theHorlicks to the rest. Bar till 3. Nudity, hopefully.

See Observer Augalso 9-21 00.45 (01.45)Assembly. £7.50 THE33LEAGUE ®0©©0 Venue - Pleasance, 60TheAGAINSTTEDIUM Pleasance Tickets 556 6550 LI4 THE LEAGUE AGAINSTTEDIUM From the creator of Alan Parker Urban Warrior, Simon Munnery. ' I t' s too unique and original to describe.Trust me, you' ll beGuardian. amazed' SellIndependent on Sunday. 'Utterly unlike anything you've seen before' out '98.£4.00 Previews 21.50 (22.50) Aug 7-9,1 4-6 1, 12,15-19,22,23,25,26 21.50 (22.50) £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 27-30 13,14,20,21 21.50 (22.50) £8.50 (£7.50) Aug 21.50 (22.50) £9.00 (£8.00) 34

VENUE 26 7-29 AUGUST BOX OFFICE TUES - SUN 7PM PH 0131 226 2151 PLUS WEEKEND MATINEES FRIIlirF OFFICE PERFORMANCE SEE OUR ril iJ/J Ulol n i| n 1 2OOC C1 JO OO JGFORUNDERALL DANCE AND PHYSITIMCALES THEATRE 2 0 51

QS^d Comedy and Revue LEANER AND FITTER Venue 20 - Theatre Workshop, 34 Hamilton Place Tickets 226 5425 KOSOVAR Putting thecutting comedy firmly back into comedy -Fringe music,faces, drama,we'CABARET stand-up, at theother edge.can' Witht reach. guestProceeds spotspolitical fromto Workers familiar llconvoys. invade allregions shows Aid and Kosova Check venue for line-up.

Aug Aug 23,30 24-29 21.30 22.15 (midnight) (midnight) £8.00 £6.50 (£5.00) (£4.00) LENNIE & MORRIS (DO©0O Venue 82 - Komedia @ Southside, 117 Nicolson Street Tickets 667 2212 M12 ★and■Ruth THEGlaser LENNIE AND MORRIS SHOW Chris Cresswell (RaRaZoo) (DNA Cabaret) are Lennie and Morris.

Explosive mix of wit, anarchic music and comicon improvisation.VOODOO VAUDEVILLE! 'Preview ComedyAug whichhallis a19.turns commentary 40 (20.40) £4.50comedy (£3.00) itself The Guardian.

Aug 9-29 19.46-80 (20.40) £6.50 (£5.00)

George Square Theatre lues 10 Aug 99 - Sun 15 Aug 99 LIP SERVICE 0O©©O III 9.45pm Venue 3 - Assembly Rooms, 54 George Street Tickets 226 2428 KING ARTHURcomedy ANDduo THEandKNIGHTS OFTHEMaggie OCCASIONAL TABLE Award-winning Festival favourites, Fox and Sue Ryding of pointyforhats,thepointy swords and otherThepointy bits.

Happy days > present 'Cancel7-12,15,16,18,19,23,25,30 alla show engagements glorious Lip Service' Independent.

Aug 12.

0 0 (13.30) £9.00 (£8.00) Aug 13,14,20-22,27-29 12.00 (13.30) £ 10.00 (£9.00) Suitable for ages 12+ are here again' WITHERING LOOKS Two performances only of this cult hit. A hilarious slice of life with the Bronte sisters. ' A comic classic' The Guardian.

Aug 24 16.30 (17.50) £9.00 (£8.00) Suitable for ages 12+ Tickets: 0131 662 8740 Aug 26 12.00 (13.20) £9.00 (£8.00) LIP THEATRE COMPANY OOO0O stnnerangEr Venue 16 - Rocket Venue ©Theatre Arts Centre, 10 Davie Street Tickets 667 6666 LI 3 ★Braveheart ATAY BRIDGE TOO andFARSnog You&may remember such following performances as 2, Braveharder other stories.

Thus such success, Lip Theatre Company from Dundee University is back presenting another of original Aug 23-28brilliant 19.35selection (21.05) £4.00 (£3.00)short plays.

WINNER - BEST OF SAN FRANCISCO FRINGE “FIVE STARS*: EDMONTON SUN “POIGNANT & FUNNY” - SF EXAMINER “A VERY FUNNY SHOW” - TORONTO SUN “ELECTRIFYING” - EDMONTON JOURNAL

NORMAN LOVETT ®0©00 Venue 33 - Pleasance,60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550 U4 NORMAN LOVETT Following sell-out UK tour this Red Dwarf star returns for ten dates only!

Catch him now at the peak of his powers. ' I t' s not an act, the this funny!'

Scotsman.

Augman 6-15really 20.30is (21.30) £8.50The(£7.50) LEE MACK S BITS ©0©©O Venue 33 - Pleasance,60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550 LI4 LEE MACK' S BITS The host of C4' s GAS returns to the Fringe with a brand new sketch-show featuring film, music and gags. ' C an single-handedly restore all faith in fringe sketch-shows.

Without doubt a five star show' ***** Danny Wallace, List.AugBook early.

Previews 4-6 19.

1 5 (20.15) £4.00 5 (20.15) £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 7-9,11,12,15-19,22,23,25,26 Aug 13,14,20,21 19.15 (20.15) £8.5019.1(£7.50) Aug 27-30 19.15 (20.15) £9.00 (£8.00)

MALIGN COMMUNICATIONS ©0©©0 Venue 84 - HolyroodTavern,Holyrood Road Tickets 557 4972 KI3 ★ THEcomedy' LEISURE VIRUS Jam turnsTheblue,traintheisGentlemen formisamighty. league.

Sketch s genes are mutating. big, the boosh Mutation absurdity. continues.The virus emerges.

Contorted logic, killer nonsense, dramatic A newleisure strain(£4.00) of sketch comedy.

Aug 7-29 19.40 (20.40) £5.00 ENNIO MARCHETTO 000©0 Venue 26 - Gilded Balloon at the Palladium, Broughton Place Tickets 226 2151 G14 ■Cher,ENNIO MARCHETTO The living cartoon returns with friends Mona Lisa, pape The 3 Tenors and many more.

Hilarious parody, superb paper costumes, and on stageingenious...brilliantly transformations-modern day celebrities'*****' to fantasy icons. 'dazzlingly observed...hilarious' The Scotsman written & performed by Byron Yee Aug 25-30 20.45 (21.45) £10.50 (£8.50) Aug 28,29 17.30 (18.30) Suitable for ages 5+ CAFE ROYAL VENUE 47 AUG 5-30 18.15 WWW.PAPERSON.COM 35

Comedy and Revue oo©oo MELAND SUE LI4 Venue 33 - Pleasance, 60 The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550 MEL AND SUE: BACK TO OUR ROOTS Light Lunch stars follow blistering sell-out UK tour with seven special nights in Edinburgh.Two old faves return15-21 with a21.15 stonking band! 'Corking!' The Scotsman Aug (22.15)live£9.50 MERVYN STUTTER S PICK OF THE FRINGE 00©©0 Venue 33 - Pleasance,60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550 LI4 MERVYN STUTTER' SestPICK OF THE FRINGE Star ofObserver) Radio Twobrings s Loveyou 40eight- New Balls Please (' B comedy programme for years' differentshowcase comedy,oftheatre and music acts in 90 minutes. 'A vibrant and stimulating Fringe13.0talent' Scotsman.

Aug 12,16,18,19,23,25,26 0 (14.30) (£6.00) Aug 13-15,20-22,27-30 13.00 (14.30) £8.50£7.50(£7.00) MITCHELL&WEBB 0Q©©O Venue 3 - Assembly Rooms, 54 George Street Tickets 226 2428 II! THE MITCHELL & WEBB STORY You’ll probably thoroughly enjoy this comedyofshow but may not. 'T'Hheighlyenergy of an Olympic relay team and the timing Accurist' Scotsman.

'Preview Real comicAug talent' Time(22.30) Out. £6.00 original stuff... a perfect script' Stage.

6 21.30 Aug 21.30 £9.00 (22.30)(£8.00) £8.00 (£7.00) Suitable for ages 13+ Aug 7-12,15-17,19,23,24,26,30 13,14,20-22,27-29 21.30 (22.30) MOTORMOUSE PRODUCTIONS ®0©©O Venue 19 - C, Over-Seas House, 100 Princes Street Tickets 225 5105 110 ★forKISS MY HONEYMOON LIPS It' s 1973. ' P amperus Hair Salon' isRita, open business.

Kick off your slingbacks and drop in for frothy coffee with Mini and the best(£4.00) comic cut in town. (Blue rinses Aug 4-30Jerry' 10.1s5wife.

(11.05)It's £5.00 Suitablego free). for ages 10+

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"nail-biting, finger-lickin' gun-toting out and out hilarious!"

6th - 30th Aug 8.45pm Box Office: 0131 226 2151

"A beautifully performed* rollercoater ride ofS i captivating nonsense, fabulous) comedyjtfmusic" - SCOTSMAN

Avalon Promotions Ltd presents Double BAFTA Award Winning Writer of The Mrs Merton Show

Comedy and Revue

COLIN MURPHY 0O©©O MVE GOMMirS Venue 33 - Pleasance, 60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550 LI4 COLIN MURPHY Award-winning, razor-sharp, acerbic satire, fused withwith. hilarious physical material, ensures Colin is a major force to be reckoned His 2 solo TVsell-out specialsshows have catapulted him acclaim. into the premier league, "Extraordinarily guaranteeing and widescale Aug 4-8,10-12,15-19,22,24-26 19.

3 0 (20.30) £7.50 (£6.50) inventive...

Aug 13,14,20,21,27-30 19.30 (20.30) £8.50 (£7.50) astounding.

AL MURRAYTHE AND A ©Q©©0 GLASS OF WHITEPUB WINELANDLORD: FORTHE LADY Venue 33 - Pleasance, 60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550 AL MURRAYTHELADY PUB Three LANDLORD: AND A GLASS OF WHITE WINE timeshisPub-of-the-Year LandlordFORTHE has gone back-to-basics with all new show.95-98. 'runner-up,The The Book funniestearly.livePub comedy-show of the entire century' Observer.

Sell-out Previews Aug 4-6 21.25 (22.40) £4.00 Aug 7-9,1 1, 12,15-19,22,23,25,26 (22.40) £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 13,14,20,21 21.25 (22.40) £8.5021.25(£7.50) Aug 27-30 21.25 (22.40) £9.00 (£8.00) Mil Venue 37 - George Square Theatre, George Square Tickets 662 8740 AL MURRAYTHE PUB LANDLORD: AND A GLASS OF WHITE WINE FORTHE LADY Aug 13,14,20,2123.1523.15(00.30) (00.30)£9.00£8.50(£8.00) (£7.50) Aug 27,28,29 NATURAL THEATRE COMPANY 000©0 Venue 51 - Balmoral Hotel, I Princes Street Tickets 226 5138 112 ★Margaret ONE LUMP ORTWO? Radio 4 stars, the outrageously grand Lady and her nephew Penkivil, invite you to a superior musical teaparty, complete 'Massiveoutside assurance' Guardian.

Please23-29 awaitwith11.Ladycumcumber Margaret' ssandwiches. limousine arrival the hotel!!

August 4th - 30th at 7.15pm (Except 10th & 24th) Aug 0 0 (11.50) £8.00 (£7.00) PLEASANCE Box Office: 0131 556 6550 Aug 23-29 15.00 (15.50) NEWSREVUE ©0©©0 Venue 4 - C too, St Columba's by the Castle, Johnston Terrace Tickets 2255105 KIO NEWSREVUE ' 9 9 Fringe First winner.

Perrier finalist.

Cruel sketches and savage songs burn the of theyousoundbite 'Satirically Avalon Promotions Ltd Presents Guardian.

'So close to theidolsbadbone can almostculture. see white' List. 'Vbrilliant' ery sharp writers' taste' Aug 5-30Times.

21.20'Shocking (22.20) £8.00 (£6.00)Economist. '*****' Scotsman.

PHIL NICHOL 0O©©O Venue 33 - Pleasance, 60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550 LI4 PHIL NICHOL New showadmittance' from JuiceThePig List and'B'9ust8 Time Outto Comedy Award Winner. ' G o now.

Demand a gut catch Phil' s side splitters' you'd be£3.00 barmy to miss him' The Herald.

Previewsand Aug'compelling, 4,5 20.45 (21.45) Aug Aug 6-8,10-12,15-19,22-26 13,14,20,21,27-30 20.4520.45 (21.45)(21.45)£9.00£8.00 (£8.00)(£7.00) THE NIMMO TWINS ©O©©© Venue 33 - Pleasance, 60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550 LI4 THE NIMMO TWINS Another ' b rilliant... intelligent... hour of classic comedy' ***** Scotsman from the ' h ilariously perverse' Guardian ' i ncendiary comic stars' EDP ofOut'Loose Ends' 'Hbatter aywire'run.

BBCSell2. Letout't'he97,future Time make your15.and funny '98. of sketch comedy' Previews Aug 4,5 4 5 (16.45) £3.00 Aug 45 (16.45)£9.00£8.00 Aug 6-8,10-12,15-19,22-26 13,14,20,21,27-30 15.4515.(16.45) (£8.00)(£7.00) ROSS NOBLE ®0@©0 Venue 38 - Gilded Balloon Theatre, 233 Cowgate Tickets 226 2151 K12 ROSS NOBLE: LASER BOY ’He makes you feel like'Hea hijacks bunch ofan kids who are staying up late without permission.'

The Scotsman idea and demands to be flown to the furthest flung corners of the imagination.' The List Aug Aug 9-12,16-19,23-26,30 6-8,13-15,20-22,27-2921.30 21.30(22.30) (22.30)£6.50 £8.00(£5.50) (£7.00) NUMBER ONE SHOW ®0©©0 Venue 38 - Gilded Balloon Theatre, 233 Cowgate Tickets 226 2151 K12 NUMBER ONE SHOW ANDREW MAXWELL the UK' s best kept comedy secret.

Plus TREVOR LOCK ' W ay along the road 1 to weird' The Stage and DANIEL KITSON 'Too young to be this talented Time Out. A 2hr show for just in a room Aug£7.50...

6-30 22.45 (00.30)with£7.50a bar!!

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OUTRAGEOUS SCRIPTS ®0©©$ Venue 21 - Roman Eagle Lodge, 2 Johnston Terrace Tickets 226 7207 K HANG AMulvaney BRA ONtheYOUR SHIELD! Traditional storytelling for adults, !• featuring Immortal Irishman, who has intervened (disastrously) ininvented many important events; and storyteller.

Clovis Sangrail, the Dreadful Young Mai by20.25 Saki, (21.25) thehistorical famous Edwardian OO0OO Aug OFFTHE FENCE FUND 6-29 £6.00 (£4.50) NI3 Venue 72 - The Queen's Hall, Clerk Street Tickets 668 2019/cc 667 7776 DEB PERCY 00©©€ STAND UPfreeFORspeech.

FREEProceeds SPEECHto Uncensored comedyFund, as top Fringe actss Venue stand up for the Off the Fence LM Magazine' 162 - Canon's Gait Cellar Bar, 232 Canongate Kl ! defence17 against UN's libel SEX AND SEQUINS outrageous stand-up Deb Percy looks too sweet to be| Aug 20.00 (23.00) £ 12.action.

00 (£8.00) awithself-confessed sexuality expert.

A cabaret show combining intelligent commenj mad performance and sing-along tunes. Camp, glamorous, tacky and ; OFFTHE KERB ROADSHOW ®O0©O Aug definately broadminded.

8-29 for23.00the(23.45) £2.00 (£1.00) Venue 33 - Pleasance,60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550 LI4 OFFofTHE KERBcomedy' ROADSHOW The futureQuinlan of comedy.

Catherine Tate 'a '98 PERRIER PICK OF THE FRINGE 00006 tour character Express.

Caroline BBC & C4 New Comedy Runner Up. IanGuardian.

Moore 'will go on to become one of the country's top Venue 3 - Assembly Rooms, 54 George Street Tickets 226 2428 II comedians' PERRIER PICK OF THE FRINGE AWARD SHOWS The winner Previews Aug 4,5 22.00 (23.00) £3.00 and nominees of Britain' s No. I Comedy Award on one fabulous bill!

Aug 6-8,10-12,15-19,22-26 This show is guaranteed to make you laugh.

Aug 13,14,20,21,27-30 22.0022.00 (23.00)(23.00)£9.00£8.00 (£8.00)(£7.00) Bookoutstanding early, everycomedy year a sellbillout!

EARL OKIN ®O0©O Aug 29,30 21.00 (22.30) £ 10.00 (£9.00) Venue 47 - The Cafe Royal, 17 West Register Street Tickets 556 2549 112 PLEASANCE COMEDY ®0©©0 ■comedy, HIS ROYAL HORNINESS With the long-awaited return of cabaretVenue 33 - Pleasance,60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550 LI4| Earl is simply the best!!!

Sophisticated, naughty or silly, his unique MARK MAIER AND PAULPaulROGAN IN RADIObetween DAZEtheGetA404, lost with blend ofofmusic, and sex-appeal as unmissably potent as ever. comedians Mark Maier and Rogan somewhere 'Aug Master5-12,15-20,23-26 the arthumour of cabaret' Evening News.

CromertyEdinburgh Cromerty and'97,aPaul shoeRogan, shop with for ampleLaughs' parking.

Mark 'Maier: Montreal 97, '98.

Aug 13,14,21,22,27,28 20.25 20.25(21.30) (21.30) £7.00 £7.50(£5.00) (£5.50) Suitable for ages 12+ sell-out Preview Aug 4 16.'926,5 (17.25) £3.5016.2'J5ust(17.25) Aug 5-9,11,12,15-19,22,23,25,26 £7.00 (£6.00) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH OPEN MIC AWARD 13,14,20,21,27-30 16.25 (17.25) £8.00 (£7.00) GRAND FINAL 1999 ooo©o Aug THEYEntertainment SHOOT COWBOYS....DON' THEY? An absurd, fast moving and ] Venue 33 - Pleasance, 60 The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550 LI4 funny exploring thes bosom historyTwill ofThe THE DAILY TELEGRAPH OPEN MIC AWARD GRAND FINAL 1999 Alan Ladd'the s boxgood, andtheJane Russell' all beWestern. showing.JohnAllWayne' pilgrimss slouch, are ;j Judged by an all-star panel of celebrities, ten budding comics will compete for welcome, bad and the ugly.

'Montreal the UK’s and biggest comedy Comedy prize' The Star, £2,000 and openings at the prestigious Aug 1, 12,15-19,22-2612.4512.(13.45) 45 (13.45)£7.00£6.00 Aug 7-9,1 13,14,20,21,27-30 (£6.00)(£5.00) Aug 24 14.00Melbourne (16.00) £5.00 Festivals.

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★HUSBAND!' COME ON!Arson PRODUCTIONS - THATfree BISCUIT STOLE MYclassical victim Eenie Thompson, spirit Andy Reeve, actress Dora Potty and angry baker Susan Tranter: each holds a clue Hazel Foster as she the bizarre disappearance of her husband,forKeith.

Previews Augstruggles 4,5 17.1with 5 (18.15) £3.50 Aug 6-8,10-12,15-19,22,24-26 17.

1 5 (18.15) £6.00 (£5.00) Aug 13,14,20,21,27-30 17.15 (18.15) £7.00 (£6.00) NAVELGAZING lies, lies, lies,lies.Gross Hyperbole:'Made toup someone quote' misleading promise ofLies,nudity, more Ridiculous comparison famous ' A decontextualised quote' false promise about urination excessive whopping great lie. A must see. due to Preview 4,5laughter.

15.45One (16.45)more£3.00 Aug 6-9,1 1, 12,15-19,22,23,25,26 5 (16.45) Aug 13,14,20,21,27-30 15.45 (16.45)15.4£7.00 (£6.00)£6.00 (£5.00) PARKINSON AND KATZ UNF***ED Deadpan, dark, sexy,written dirty, by obsessive, mordant andMorris' unstableBluecomedy.

Including monologues Robert Katz for Chris Jam and Sarah Parkinson for Five Squeezy Pieces.16-19,22,24-26 Directed by Paul13.Merton.

Not£6.00 suitable for pets.

Aug 00 (14.00)£6.50 (£5.00) Aug 20,21,27-30 13.00 (14.00) (£5.50) ★ RUBBABALL-ROME!!! tipped Comedy outfit Rubbaball' What'ans Onhilarious return from sell-outatsuccess at'thethe'hotly Singapore Festival with tale of skulduggery the Senate, h ugely enjoyable' The Scotsman 'a daft, crazy and wonderful hour'14.The30 Stage. t miss.

Previews Aug 4,5 (15.30)14.Don' £3.50 Aug 6-8,10-12,15-19,22-26 3 0 (15.30) £7.00 (£6.00) Aug 13,14,20,21,27-30 14.30 (15.30) £8.00 (£7.00) N'AofRN' S BIG TOP Theandstarsfestival fromgossip.

ITV's Featuring 'Comedy Cafe' bring you aBEN' fat bag character comedy Special Guests from among their comedy pals.

And Bernard.

Fun for a fiver bargain.

Aug 4-30 (not 9,23) 23.00 (23.55) £5.00 ■ INSTANT unique musical comedy are one-liners back with a newobservations. showSUNSHINE - packedA comedy withThebrilliantly songsBarlow, fullgroup of witty and sharp classicTomcrafted withBarlow.

David Alan Maryon Davis, Peter Christie and Aug 22-26 12.17.3005 (13.30) (18.05) £7.00 £6.50 (£6.00) (£5.00) Aug Aug 27,28 27,28 17.05 (18.05) £7.00 (£6.00) KISSING THE GOLDFISH 'Hilarious... brilliant' Scottish ExpressStandard 'deliciously funny' Adelaide itty & imaginative' HongyouKong 'utterly 'Zany sparkling, sexy''weverything Scotsman.

Goldfish serve their freshcharming' bowl of Raunchy JazzLondon and Glamour: from Carpenters to Wagner ' p erfect' Adelaide.

Aug 15-19,22,24-26 23.15 (00.15) £7.00 (£5.50) Aug 14,20,21,27-30 23.15 (00.15) £8.00 (£6.50)

Comedy and Revue GREG PROOFS 0O©OO Venue 3 - Assembly Rooms, 54 George Street Tickets 226 2428 111 GREG PROOPS I am nice now since I was banished to Hollywood.

ITherealise my career lies in Scottishland.

Share the love.

Face the consequences.

Herald ne fine bitch'. Be real dudes, you need the human contact.

Peace,calledout.me 'o(21.30) Aug Aug 6-12,15-19 13,14 20.30 20.30 (21.30) £ 10.00£9.00 (£9.00)(£8.00) PURPLE PRODUCTIONS 00©©0 Venue 21 - Roman Eagle Lodge, 2 Johnston Terrace Tickets 226 7207 KI0 ★ TUBULAR HELLSCorner, Do youLusty fantasize on trains?

We do.This play stops at: Seduction City, Singers' Square, Drunksbridge and Bedlam.

Ride with be laughing ill the last stop.

Aug 16-28us,18.you'00ll(18.50) £5.00't(£4.00) RABBI LIONEL BLUE 00©00 Venue 72 - The Queen's Hall, Clerk Street Tickets 668 2019/cc 6677776 NI3 RABBI LIONEL BLUE Using his own experiences and offwhose beat sense of humour, Lionel Blue tells a selection of stories and incidents dotty inconsequential flavour £will10.0appeal Aug 19 19.30 (21.30) 0 (£8.00)to people from all religions... and from none.

NEVILLE RAVEN 00©@0 Venue 139 - Gilded Balloon at The Honeycomb,36 Blair Street Tickets 226 2151 KI2 ★hilarious NEVILLE' S ADVOCATE With musical help, this accomplished and storyteller takes you on a journey from Chicago down to New Orleans the Mississippi.The question whoTime understands less - 18-30 hisand girlfriend or Americans?

'Skilful andis simple: Enjoyable' Out. him Aug 20.45 (21.45) £7.00 (£6.00)

Junction of Kings Stable Road and Grassmarket.

STARRING 6.15-7.15pm Chambers & Nettleton Two For The Price Of One 7.45 - 8.45pm Andrew Murrell Dreadlocks & Footlights 9.15- 10.15pm Daniel Kitson & Lee Canterbury The Monkey Touchers 10.45 - 11.45pm Mallory & Mr Flute All Shows: 6 - 30 August £6/£5 Fringe Box Office 0131 226 5138 39

BRITAIN’S BIGGEST SEARCH FOR NEW COMEDY STARS THE PINAL “SIMPLY m?

BRILLIANT" ^ Mrs Merton star, Caroline Aherne

Hosted by BOOTHBY GRAFFOE TUESDAY 2athBoxAUGUST PLEASANCE Office: 0131at5562.00pm 6550 at&The Montreal booking on the Melbourne Carlsberg ice WW ■ IS Comedy Festivals... comedy Network £2000... 4 J If youDaily would likeTelegraph to enter next year's competition your name and2000, address to: ^ Open please MicsendAward PO Boxorisoas, London WiO 6WQ 598paid7303 Applicants must never havecallbeen0171 previously for a stand-up comedy gig

Comedy and Revue THE REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY 00©©0 Venue 3 - Assembly Rooms, 54 George Street Tickets 226 2428 III ■return THEwithMILLENNIUM MUSICAL The self-styled bad boys of abridgement songs and... a girl.

An irreverent, deranged and hilarious romp through comedy this funny only comes around once 9-12,15,16,18,19,23-26,30 or the twicelasta thousand millennium'years.

New'AHampshire Aug 11.15 £9.00 (13.00)Telegraph £8.00 (£7.00) Suitable for ages 12+ Aug 13,14,20-22,27-29 11.15 (13.00) (£8.00) JON REED 0O©©O Venue 33 - Pleasance, 60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550 LI4 JON REED: 8 ' The i MMTimesAward-winning Jon Reedhead'shows justa dolce how exciting comedy can be' with a multi-media trip in vita nightclub. and shrinking it's anWatson. incredible journey.

'Films, Absurdants,brilliance' The Lispeople, t. With 20.30 Frank Aug (21.30) £7.50 (£6.50) Aug 4-8,10-12,15-19,22,24-26 13,14,20,21,27-30 20.30 (21.30) £8.50 (£7.50) ROBERT VERSES LEE NESS THE GAYKNOX BERNARD MANNING’ Venue 162 - Canon's Gait Cellar Bar, 232 Canongate ★MANNING' ROBERT KNOX VERSES LEE from NESShis'Tstudio HE GAY Robert Knox ventures (flat)BERNARD of verseup tofromstandthe against the might of Lee Ness.

Absolutely no holds barred stand most outrageous bastard on the circuit.

Aug 9-29 19.00 (20.00) £3.00 (£2.99) ANDY ROBINSON 0O©©O Venue 33 - Pleasance,60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550 LI4 ★Brand ANDY ROBINSON Fresh from supporting Jack Dee, Lee Evans and Jo on national Artful one liners, Black carefullyCountry craftedbeanpole. observations and endearing, intelligenttours.

'Previews Comedy equivalent oftallgoldstories dust'from SundaytheTimes.

Aug 4,5 21.45 (22.45) £3.00 Aug Aug 6-9,11,12,15-19,22-26 13,14,20,21,27-30 21.4521.45 (22.45)(22.45)£9.00£8.00 (£8.00)(£7.00) SCREAMERS 00©©0 Venue 82 - Komedia @ Southside, 117 Nicolson Street Tickets 667 2212 MI2 SCREAMERS COMEDY CLUB presents the cream of gay, lesbian and queer-friendly acts for a crowd that defies definition.TV' s Tina C. the Cowgirl Jay Magazine. the elevenstore girl introduce top guests.

'Rhinestone A bloody good nightandout'Alimidnight Boyz Aug 13,14,20,21,27,28 (01.30) £7.00 (£5.00) SCREAMING BLUE MURDER COMEDY ®0©©0 Venue 47 - The Cafe Royal, 17 West Register Street Tickets 556 2549 112 BIG VALUE COMEDY SHOW...

EARLY 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 allforsellouts.

Back with another three hugely funny comedians.

One top compere, 2 I twoBooking intervals, joke competition, two hour show...

Allbeer forpromotion, only £6.50. advised.

Preview 20.00 (22.00) Free See£6.50below.

Aug 6-29Aug (not5 17,24) 20.00 (22.00) BIG VALUEandCOMEDY LATEif youAs come above tobutboth withshows three you different comedians a different SHOW... compere. And can claim a free T-shirt!

Preview Aug 5 22.30 (00.30) Free Aug 6-29 (not 17,24) 22.30 (00.30) £6.50 SIMPLY BARBRA ®0©©O Venue 33 - Pleasance, 60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550 LI4 ■Brinberg SIMPLYmakes BARBRA Direct from 4 sell-out years in New York.

Steven his'Absolutely Edinburghbrilliant! debut with the record breaking homage to Streisand.

'Barbra He's better at4-6it than she is!' Village VoiWickedly ce. funny' Time Out NY. Preview Aug 18.

3 0 (19.30) £4.00 Aug 0 (19.30) Aug 7-9,11,12,15-19,22,23,25,26 13,14,20,21,27-30 18.30 (19.30)18.3£8.50 (£7.50)£8.00 (£7.00) FRANK SKINNER S GREATEST HITS ©OOOO Venue 33 - Pleasance,60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550 U4 FRANK SKINNER' S GREATEST HITS Perrier Award winner Frank Skinner returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with a show featuring the pick of stand up bematerial from hisvery firstearly. ten years in comedy. Not for the faint hearted and not toAug missed.20.00 Book(21.00) 6-13 £5.00 Maximum of 2 tickets per booking 41

Qsrt^d, Comedy and Revue SMUG CLUB PRODUCTIONS OO©©© Venue 9 - The Tron, 9 Hunter Square, High Street Tickets 226 0931 K12 AValentio, GOODTIME, ATTHE DEAD OF NIGHT! Starring Jackie Mr Goodtime' jack-of-all-trades (comedy, songs, impressions), master of one (goodtimes), comedian Dom Carroll, 'deadpan comic with a natural8-12,15-19,22-26 affinityandforaward-winning the dead' Aug 23.30Independent.

(01.00) £5.00 ASmugONEas heNIGHT STAND...WOULD Starring tears SmugandRoberts.

Join deals with crisisdescription andYOU? the laughter, trauma one rilliant!a mid-life He defies and must be seen' City Lifofe. a Aug night 8-29 stand.

18.30 'B(20.00) £5.00 ©O©©0 SO YOU THINK YOU'RE FUNNY KI2 4 Venue 38 - Gilded Balloon Theatre, 233 Cowgate Tickets 226 2151 SO YOU THINK YOU' R E FUNNY Sponsored by Channel Four Television, the original and best stand up competition for newcomers that has spawned such new talent as for Phil it'Kay, Tiernan, Rhona Cameron and Lee Mack.

Returns s 12thDylan year.Moran,Tommy Heats Aug 8-10,15-18 22.15 (23.45) £7.50 (£6.50) Final Aug 29 20.45 (23.00) £9.00 (£8.00) THE BEST OF 'winner SO YOUandTHINK RE the FUNNY'12Your chance to see the popular runnersYOU' upsomefrom years.giants A guaranteed mirthmost packed ninetysteps minutes featuring of legendary todayspastcomedy - who took their first tentative as contestants of this stand up competition.

Aug 6,7,11-14,19-30 22.15 (23.45) £7.50 (£6.50) 4 THE SPIEGELTENT HHGDKlri Venue 87BECK'S - Beck's FamousFAMOUS Spiegeltent, by Scott Monument, Princes St TixO0©©O 558 8010 III JIMEOIN The Irishman from Oz is back!

Sellouts 1997/6.

Stara (&laugh, writer) ofcompletely, new Australian smash-hit comedy film THE CRAIC. ' U p for ridiculously funny' Scotsman.

'Hottest act' Hollywood Reporter.and 'Aug Inspired ramblings' Independent. ' A bove all, funny' Sunday Times.

8-22 (not 16) 21.30 (22.40) £ 10.00 (£8.00)

THE STAND COMEDY CLUB: STAND II ®0©©C1 Venue 5 - The Stand Comedy Club: Stand I , I North Clyde Street Tickets 558 7272 HI .

SCOTLAND Check out price. tomorrow' s stars today.

SixThomas new acts irv| j anSTAND-UP hour-long showcase at an unbeatable Introducing Graeme reminiscent of that master of the obscure, Harry Hill' Scotsman and Rutherford] &'Preview MersonJuly'high-class 292 19.19.300comedy' 0(20.30) (20.00) Evening £3.00 News.

Preview Aug £3.00 Aug 6-29 18.15 (19.15) £4.00 (£3.00) KEVIN orHAYES: BEYOND THEthe POPE Opium Irish of thehistory people? Criminalise Judaism nutshell dryit.j| i drops hiswit'newRichard-and-Judyism, bombshell on religion.man 'Thiswho manputis gold' Scotsmanin'wa ondrous smooth Irish Times.

Preview Aug 45 21.15 (22.15) £3.00 Preview (22.00) Aug 6-29Aug (not 16)21.0019.40 (20.40)£3.00£5.00 (£4.00) JANE MACKAY: HOUSEWIFE MARXIST1979.Solo'Should show compere debut in athelifenew ^; story suitable for everyone who'finelycan&balanced remember Scottish parliament' Scotsman mixEvening of self-deprecation, put-downs and incisive humour' List ' s harp wit' News.

Previews Aug 2 21.30£3.00 (22.30) £3.00 Aug Aug 46-2922.3021.05(23.30) (22.05) £5.00 (£4.00) ji] NORTHERN UPROAR Afriendly riot oflaughs late night comedy froms Brendan two of northern | England' s finest.

Lots of big, with Liverpool' Riley ''blaughter ouncy, engaging... does thehisbusiness' ScotsmanPost.and Barnsley's Toby Foster I running through veins' Yorkshire Preview Aug 6-29Aug22.305 22.30 (23.30)(23.30) £5.00 £3.00 (£4.00)

THE5 STAND COMEDY III 558 7272 ©O©©© Venue - The Stand Comedy Club: Stand I CLUB: I, 16 North StSTAND Andrews St Tickets HI2" ALLAN MILLER: BALINESE SHADOW PORN Cult compere in slide : show spectacular.

In a totally unsuitable time-slot, this may vex or perplex overseas visitors.

'Side-splittinglv comical'in Scotsman, eranged, sex-obsessed headcase of a showmam Stage, £3.00 'comedy its purest'dform' Evening News.

Preview Aug I 4,522.0019.0(23.00) Previews Aug 0 (20.00) £3.00 Aug 6-29 (not 16) 17.15 (18.15) £5.00 (£4.00) ; USELESS GUIDE TO SCOTLAND Biofl their Dewar1998andtriumph.

Brian Hennigan with sizzling new sketches and highlights Mstismatched pairmicrocosm... make an effective Scots odd couple... on brilliance' .]

Li'Previews , 'a cultural you be eternally grateful'borders Scotsman.

THE COMEDY July 30,31 18.00(20.00) (19.00)will£5.00 £3.00 Venue 5 STAND - The Stand Comedy Club: Stand 1,CLUB 5 York Place Tickets 558 7272 0Q©©O H12 Aug 6-29 (not 16) 19.00 (£4.00) Scotland' comedy club offers terrific entertainment all stages. year and 'runsswines, apurpose-built cracking festival' Stage.

Selected great One foodus!venue, - 'valuenineteen to shoutshows, about'three Scotsman.

Comfort, quality,realno ales festivalandrip-off.Try FREE &'WEASY of lunchtime fun.At weekends, Bilconstant Dewar'sjokes Fringev special ofLots Comedy Quizshow Meals food... are orld mouth-watering and drinksandChallenge' delicious 'at.offers good 'cheap bar and List. great cooking is wholesome tasty' Li s Deb percy Aug 6-29 13.30 (15.00) Free KEVIN HAYES:withBEYOND THE hit.

PALE Shrinkeducation...

2000 yearsplenty of Irishof laughs' historySoS. into 45 minutes this returning ' I nstant 'Antidote to comics who never raise a laugh... might change attitudes... sen and sequins what the best do' Scotsman.

Aug 6-29 (notsatire 16) should 14.25(15.15) £5.00 (£4.00) OH! WHAT A LOVELY Ali Jay(QVC) (Screamers), James Holmesof (Anorak of Fire) andPrepare Magic BLOUSE Muden present a cabaret kitsch.lovely' toMandy be slapped on the head withana afternoon wet digestive!

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3 0 (16.30) £3.00 cabaret-style Aug 7-29 (not 16) 15.30 (16.30) £5.00 (£4.00) YANKa bizarre, ME! Globetrotting Harmon Leonhistory makesofhishisEdinburgh debutmost comedy show with acerbicaandmaster characterful Yanks.Fringe 'Unlike American comedians, of understated comedy'fellow Adelaide Advertiser. which is 'Preview BrilliantlyAug un-American' Wellington Evening Post.

Aug 6-29 (not5 16)17.0017.(18.00) 00 (18.00)£3.00£5.00 (£4.00) GLAMOROUS, BESTshowcase OF IRISHfor COMEDY Threevalue. or more New 1999 champ and great Overtenhilarious anin.hour ofHibernians. quality stand-up, CAMP and acts change nightly.

Free for the first Featuring the affable Brendan Burke ' p ure genius' Scotsman. definitely for Aug 6-29 18.00 (19.15) £5.00 (£4.00) BOB DOOLALLY QUEERS new showit isfrom the BROAD jegend and sell-out smash 1997HISandPITCH 1998.'h'AadAlls funny filthy'offootballing 'roaring controversial, offensive andofinformed' Stage, every asmember theObserver, audience with laughter' Scotsman.

MINDED Preview Aug I 20.00 (21.20) £3.00 Aug 4-29 19.40 (21,00) £5.00 (£4.00) BEST OF SCOTTISH COMEDY Three or four great Scots. s no surprise thatdescends this sells outbargain 'the bestbasement' value onLithe ▼ w 'It'Hosted bargain thatSusan never . Fringe' Scotsman, Morrison£5.00'dtory,(£4.00) gritty, funny... a must'stScotsman. £2/£1 - 11 PM @ CANON’S GAIT CELLAR BAR, 232 Canongate Aug 6-29by 21.30 (22.40) Fringe Box Office 0131 226 5138 THE STAND cracking comedians.

Six quid.Two hours of stand-up. www. debpercy. demon.co.uk Different line-upbias.Fiveevery night.

Strong Scottish flavour.year-round.

Deliberate anti- Joon metropolitan Late bar.

Fair prices.

As delivered With Outrageous stand-up Deb Percy is is the sort ofperson who makes Broon 'likeJulya Caledonian complete Previews 30,31 21.00Roseanne, (23.15) £6.00 (£5.00)with comedy cackle' Scotsman. you cringe in public places.” Hounslow Chronicle Aug 6-29 23.30 (01.45) Sept 2-4 21.00 (23.15) 42

MARTINfromBIGPIG: MYdescendent GRANNY WAS Acircus BEARDED LADY Showbiz Character comedy atodirect of famous familyfootage.

Muomor. legends spring life from scrap book pages and archive ' D eadly eejitness' Herald,4,5'irrepressible exhuberance' Scotsman, 'outrageous' Time Out. Previews Aug 6-29 Aug (not 16) 20.30 20.20(21.30) (21.20) £3.00 £5.00 (£4.00) PARROT: GOD' S COMIC No- death,Tjreakdown, knob gags. New show.

First forkids. four years.

Years when he walked the walk adolescent he talks the talk.

Still 'Scotland' s Time mostOut. uncompromising stand-up' Guardian, 'Now, tPreview he most electric performer around' July 29 21.30(23.00) (22.30) £3.00 Preview Aug 6-29Aug21.505 22.00 (22.50) £5.00 £3.00 (£4.00) IMPROVERTED Year-round Sunday hour resident duo lackand(Weatherall) & Paul (Graham) in an all-new action packed of sketches improvisation.

Thrill to scenesquality... built atbouncing breakneckweird speedandround your suggestions.

'Preview Instantaneous wonderful ideas off each other' List.

(23.00) Aug 6-29Aug (not4 16)22.0023.10 (00.10)£3.00£5.00 (£4.00) THE STAND-UP SHOW 0O©©O Venue 84 - HolyroodTavern, Holyrood Road Tickets 557 4972 KI3 THE STAND-UP SHOW Last year this show brought you host of Channel 4'Tommy s ElevenFate,O'cRobbie lock Show lain Lee.This year' s show brings you Gary Newbon, Pointer, compere and a special guest.

5Augexcellent acts 16) for the of I. £5.00GeoffWhiting 6-29 (not 21.00price(22.00) (£4.50) TEMPO MUSICAL PRODUCTIONS 000©0 Venue 137 - Church Hil Theatre, Morningside Road 06 ★terribly MARION & MAUD' S TEATIME TRYST Two of Morningside s not life, convincing female residents meet over a French Fancy to discuss sex and did DesmondgetLynham' s moustache. 'That bird's a bloke!!' Peebles Courier.

'Where this number?'

Aug 26-27 you 17.30 (18.30) £5.00 Sorry Humphries.

Comedy and Revue TICKLED PINK PRODUCTIONS 000©0 Venue 11 - Diverse Attractions, Riddles Court, off Lawnmarket Tickets 225 8961 J11 1 ★andTHE BIG STINK ’Life is a bulging bilge-bag of nauseous and toxic gases... so are you .

Petty feuds, pretend girlfriends and windy blows in a brilliant bawdy23-28 comedy21.45fresh(23.00) for Fringe 99 - it's a blast! Written by Richard Aug £5.00 '(£3.50) Suitable Spence. for ages 12+ TINA C ®0©©0 Venue 33 - Pleasance,60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550 LI4 ★ ■reTINA C. down.

IN LEAVING ON Ait'lJET PLANE Thea halfflight' s doomed!

We' all going But you know l be a ride and with everyone' s favourite to rival Alan Partridge' Edinburgh rhinestone Evening News.cowgirl. 'A comedy creation £7.00 Aug Aug 4-8,10-12,15,17-19,22,24-26 13,14,20,21,27-30 22.00 (23.00)22.00£8.00(23.00) (£7.00) (£6.00) PAULTONKINSON ©0©©O Venue 33 - Pleasance, 60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550 LI4 ★Show' PAULTONKINSON ' P erky, cheeky, charismatic' Mirror, host of BBC' s 'Sunday . ' B reathtaking' Independent performance combining the rubberiest funny faces since Les Dawson with'Mtender recollections Leo Sayer' s favourite ost annoying stand-upof ina northern the world'boyhood.

Evening Standard.

Previews Aug 4,5comedian!

21.20 (22.20) £3.00 Aug 6-8,10-12,15-19,22-26 21.20 (22.20) £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 13,14,20,21,27-30 21.20 (22.20) £9.00 (£8.00) JOHNNY VEGAS OQQOO Venue 37 - George Square Theatre, George Square Tickets 662 8740 M11 JOHNNY VEGAS: HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN! Brand new show from the most sought after act on the Fringe the Prince of Potters and crowned King of Entertainment - Johnny Vegas! 'You'll regret it forever if you miss this Out. £9.50 (£7.50) Aug 10-15one!'21.45Time(23.00)

THINGIMIJIG THEATRE COMPANY OOO©© Venue 28 - Greyfriars Kirk House, Candlemaker Row Tickets 225 3626 Kl I ★leastTHE MORNING AFTER (A HANGOVER MYSTERY) Vomit is the of Dave' s problems.

A psycho freak admirer, unrequited love, rogue underpants, and just what has happened to Migsey the Cat? Unsuitable Aug 24-30 for20.50children.

(21.30) £4.50 (£3.50) ANDRE VINCENT ©0©©O Venue 33 - Pleasance, 60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550 LI4 ★TheANDRE VINCENT IS CHEEKY Back by management demand! cult comedian of Edinburgh ' 9 8 returns to take you on a perfectly performed mini-cab ride ofearly! captivating comedy, a trip that will leave you feeling rather giddy.

Book Previews Aug 4,5 22.00 (23.00) £4.00 £7.50 (£6.50) rd 22.00(23.00) (23.00) Aug 6-12,15,17-19,22-26 13,14,20,21,27-30 22.00 £8.50 (£7.50) 22nd-30th AUGUST not 24 13 Skiff Stfci'faph a Aug • .tij-r Comedy " TIM VINE ®0©©O LI4 BggjggjElglgia A Edinburgh i Venue 33 - Pleasance, 60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550 TIM VINE &THE MINOTAUR Tim Vine is Tim Vine in ' T im Vine &'Hthe Minotaur' followed by Tim Vine as Tim Vine, in ' I ' m Vine Thanks' . e's 5,6magnificent and like£4.00 nothing else in Edinburgh' Scotland on Sunday.

Aug 17.20 (18.20) Aug 7,8,10-12,15,17-19,22,24-26 0 (18.20) Aug 13,14,20,21,27-30 17.20 (18.20)17.2£7.00 (£6.00)£6.00 (£5.00) SALLY WOODCOCK ®0©©0 Venue 41 - Hil Street Theatre, 19 Hil Street Tickets 226 6522 HIO ★ WEDDING BELLES A tale of love and lipstick, hopes and hairdos.

"A winning mixture of Five bittersweet monologues in which author Sally Woodcock bares the souls ofBefive fantastically sillymet women ready for the same wedding. high camp, low living, warned - you19)have thesegetting women before... raw lust and catty banter" Aug 7-30 (not 18.20 (19.20) £7.50 (£5.00) The Observer Venue 36 - Gilded Balloon I , People's Palace,Old Fishmarket Close Tickets 226 2151 KI2 ★ WEDDING BELLES As12.above.

Aug 7-30 (not 9,16,19,23) 00 (13.00) £7.50 (£5.00) X-RATED REVUE ©0©©0 Venue 19 - C, Over-Seas House, 100 Princes Street Tickets 225 5105 110 ★satire, ■ HELLO THERE! The X-Rated Revue opens a chilled can and spraysLike song and nonsense in this disturbing but friendly dream-pantomime. sermon fromsquash. a drunk vicar, the cast will offer pretty much anything to anyone, URRO aincluding Aug 4-30free (not Tues) 23.15 (00.20) £7.00 (£5.00) in FOWL PLAY BYRONYEE ®0©©0 Venue 47 - The Cafe Royal, 17 West Register Street Tickets 556 2549 112 ★growing PAPERup SON Byron Yee' s critically acclaimed autobiographical show about in Oklahoma, moving to San Francisco, becoming a comedian, then finding theFringe.

ChineseCheck heritage he'd studiously ignored. Winner-Best of San 1 HOUR OF STAND COMEDY ^ UP f Francisco out www.paperson.com Preview Aug 5 18.15(19.45) 1 WEEK ONLY: BOOK EARLY!?'

Aug 6-30 18.15 (19.45) £6.00 Free Suitable for ages 12+ 43

Dance & Physical Theatre AFRICAN EXPERIENCE 00©©0 Venue 189 -The Meadows Theatre Big Top,The Meadows, Melvil e Drive Tickets 667 0202 NI2 ■of AFRICAN EXPERIENCE explodesenergy on stage fun. in aDirected pulsating byfusion stomping,premiere acrobatic WendyAfrica, de drumming, la Harpe, thisfootUSA. European features 23andperformers from South Ghana and the Aug 9-28 (not Suns) 19.00 (20.40) £8.00-£ 12.50 (£6.00-£ 10.00) Suitable for ages 8+ ALONE, COUPLED & BUNCHED FEATURING CHICAGO ARTISTS 00©©0 Venue 62 - Continental Shifts at St Bride’s, 10 Orwell Terr. Tickets 346 1405 KS ■prestigious ALONE,Ruth COUPLED AND BUNCHED featuring artists from the Page Dance series.

Blending opera, dance, photography, gymnastics and skyscraper buildings, an extraordinary dancefeaturing samplingthe by contemporary Chicago choreographers emerges.

Also award-winning multi-media work, ' T he Chicago Project' .

Aug 16-21 22.00 (23.20) £6.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 10+ Venue Shifts at Springwell House.Ardmillan Terr, off Gorgie Rd. Tickets32346- Continental 1405 (St Brides) L3 IS ALONE, COUPLED AND(£4.00) BUNCHED Aug 23-28 20.15 (21.35) £6.00 Suitable for ages 10+ AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOLTHEATRE FESTIVAL oo©oo Venue 137 - Church Hil Theatre, Morningside Road 06 ★absurdities ■ SONGof OF MYSELF Original dance/theatre about the joys, pains, adolescence in America.

Using a wide range of music, text and ldance, itcryis inspired

by Walt Whitman's poem 'Song of Myself.

You' l 16laugh,16.15(17.45) and remember.

Aug £5.00 (£3.00) Aug 1718 10.15(11.45) Aug 12.15(13.45) Aug 20 20.15 (21.45) THE AMSTERDAM PARADE PRESENTS OO©©© Venue 90 - Graffiti, Corner Broughton and East London Streets Tickets 557 8330 GI3 ■withDESTINO TANGO The dancers of Club Tango 5 return to demonstrate immense style just how seductively appealing Argentinian tango is.

Live music delight' performed by theSeenewalsosensational Quinteto Tango.

'An exotic Scotsman.

Theatre section.

Aug Aug 10-29 10-29 (not (not Mons) Mons) 20.00 22.00 (20.45) (22.45) £8.00 (£6.00) THE OBSERVER ASSEMBLY OOO©© Venue 3 - Assembly Rooms, 54 George Street Tickets 226 2428 ■showFRANTIC ASSEMBLY SELL OUT 1998 Time Out Live Award winning comesto straight London'Ans West End.grows 'This fastbetween maturing company' s best work date' Thefrom Guardian. argument friends.

And it grows quickly. ' C onsistently brilliant *****' The Scotsman.

Aug 24-26,30 22.15 (23.15) £9.00 (£8.00) Aug 27-29 22.15 (23.15) £ 10.00 (£9.00) Suitable for ages 12+ BANGLADESH FESTIVAL OF FOOD AND CULTURE ®0©©0 Venue 184 - Raj Restaurant on The Shore, 91 Henderson Street, Leith Tickets 553 3980 BI9 ■presents THE BANGLADESH FESTIVAL OF FOOD AND CULTURE Urmi Classical Dancers performing traditional and contemporary dance from Bangladesh - with the best of£14.95 Bangladeshi (Two courses: £11.95, Sunday-Thursday; Friday cuisine. & Saturday).

Plus the best waterfront view35 (22.30) in Edinburgh.

Aug 8-12,15-19,22-26 19. £ 11.

9 5 Aug 6,7,13,14,20,21,27,28 19.35 (22.30) £ 14.95 BIG ONION Venue 34 - The Famous Grouse House, 5 Chambers Street Tickets 220 5606 ★ ■ I comic CAN'Tblend SEE A THING IT'S SO DARK A and bracingly explosive and darkly soundscapes.

Big Onion brings usofthehighly storychoreographed of three womentheatre and a dayarresting at the beach that never happens...

Aug 6-29 (not 16,23) 21.30 (22.30) £7.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 13+ BURKLYN 00©00 Venue 37 - GeorgeYOUTH Square Theatre,BALLET George Square Tickets 662 8740 Ml I ■excellent PETERintroduction AND THEtoWOLF AND SUNRISE Dance, adventure, music. An ballet' The Scotsman. ' T his talented young American company...'

Edinburghbeautifully Evening News. storyexperience ballet, one contemporary brightly13-21costumed, danced.One A joyful for allSuitable ages. forballet, Aug (not 16) I 1.00 (12.00) £6.00 (£4.00) ages 6+ 44

Aug. 8-}0 22:00 £8/7 Amidrt the turmoil and chaos a new creature is born - the silver swan, the ultimate illusion, which glitters and reflects all of love and death, of the agony and ecstacy.

"A wild dance experience not to be missed!" What's on "Unlike any iwan Lake you have ever seen!" Tokyo Pros http:/ home.at .ne.jp/gold/shakti/ GARAGE THEATRE Venue 81 Grindlay Ciurt Centre Tel 1131 221 9119 http://www.hk.airnet.ne.jp/art/

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY ADC <j>0©©0 Venue 21 - Roman Eagle Lodge, 2 Johnston Terrace Tickets 226 7207 KIO ★Provocative.

■ KASSANDRA ' A re you listening?

I' m dancing, not waving' .

Playful.

Personal. Explore the vocabulary of the body'gets voice from Greek tragedy to table-dancing.

Cambridge' s finestTheperformers in nothing reathtaking' List '98. physical dressed Aug 6-29 but 22.50Freudian (23.40) slips. £5.00'B(£3.50) CIRQUE ELOIZE O0©©O Venue 189 - The Meadows Theatre Big Top,The Meadows, Melvil e Drive Tickets 667 0202 NI2 ★ ■ CIRQUE ELOIZE EXCENTRICUS With 550 performances worldwide, Canada' s most-talented 'New Circus'poetic performers present a fantastic theatrical voyage including brilliant acrobatics, moments comedy that ' c ommunicates in the universal language of fun' NYandTimes.rollicking *WIN A TRIP TO CANADA! Augl2,14,15,19,21,22,26,28,29 15.00 (16.45) Aug 9,10,12-14,16,17,19-21,23,24,26-28 21.15£8.00-£ (22.45)12.50 (£6.00-£ 10.00)

Dance & Physical Theatre

CLUB WEST 00©©0 Venue 182 -AveClub(nextWesttoatB&Q) the EdiTickets nburgh337Dance0748Centre, 10 Westfield (fromWestfield Aug 8) Halls, LI LIVIN’ERE New work by critically acclaimed Asian Company ' W ise Thoughts' Four intensely vibrantand and HIV/AIDS. bizarre talesA text-based exploring ethnic, culturalpiece and sexual . identity, love, cruising performance performed

by Subodh Kamatkar.

Aug 9-21 (not Suns) Rathod.Text: 18.00 (19.00) Niranjan £6.00 (£5.00) ■ChoKOREAN RED FIRES Festival Debut for Koreanof choreographer Ki Sook and thepercussionist Ki Dance Company presenting a trilogy new works featuring renowned Dae Whan Kim. A fusion of contemporary and traditional and stunningly, visualised.

Aug 23-28dance 18.00forms (19.00)uniquely, £6.00 (£5.00) ★New■ Technospeak.

G.O.4. - A TECHNODRAM World New Dance.

NewRichard Drama.

'ILL JEN TUmore?G.O.4.'

FuturePremiere. cult featuring the virtual O'Brien.

Aug 9-28Want (notmore?

Suns) Need 19.30 (20.30)Get£6.00on-line! (£5.00)www.who-is-go4.com featuring Chicago choreographers ★ ■ MASCALL BRUTAL TELLING Lucid and dazzling dance theatre.work RockDANCE:THE music by Veda Hille. 'Brilliant stream-of-consciousness & artists from tl performance examining the Canadian icon/visual artist, European Pick(23.30) of the Fringe' Vancouver Sun. Emily Carr.

Aug 16-28premiere. (not Suns)*****22.30 £6.00 (£5.00) DANZA.DA OOOOO Venue 81 - The Garage Theatre, Grindlay Court Centre, Grindlay Street Tickets 221 9009 K9 ■mixes THREEFOLD Danza.Da Improvisational Dance/Theatre Company theatreandandmasterful masque dancers with thetogether do or diesince reflexes of the seize gymnast. punched Three dance, courageous the improvisational split-second and spin£6.00it into dance beforechildhood, yourSuitable eyes. Literally!

Continental Shifts an extraordinary Aug 8-14 (not 11)18.30 (19.30) (£5.00) for ages 10+ at St. Bride's sampling Aug. 16-21 blending dance, DEMARCO EUROPEAN ART FOUNDATION 0O©OO Springwell House Venue 109 - D.E.A.F. @ St Mary's Cathedral, St. Mary's Cathedral, Palmerston PI Tix 5S7 0707 16 opera, photography^) Aug. 23 28 & skyscraper ★western ■ NOMAD DANCE THEATRE - SECRETS An Islamic woman and suspended togetherownin anbattles elevator London, unwitting buildings!

0131 346 1405 apawns in a man terrorists game.Their overshaft faith,intrust and elevator music reach acrobatic heights.

Spectacular Dance.

Aug 16-21 14.00 (15.00) £5.00 (£3.00) ★ ■inNOMAD DANCE THEATRE HOTELduring NADA Set inthea double DEMARCO EUROPEAN ART FOUNDATION PRESENTS bed one of Sarajevo' s ofseedier hotelswar-before, andentertaining after seige.

This contemporary tale love and does not stop with NOMAD DANCE THEATRE bedroom Aug 16-21politics 22.00 and (23.00)dynamic £5.00stagecraft. (£3.00) ★Hungarian ■ TURUL - GROTESQUE MYTH OF A PLUCKED ANGLE company ARTUS' incomparable talent lies in its Eastsurrealistic Europeanimages poetic language.The absurdity of scenes obeys the logic of dreams, connect dark humour with audacious fantasy.

Awarded and played worldwide.

Aug 9-21 (not 15) 20.00 (21.00) £6.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 6+ ★PRODUCTION ■ CRIME & PUNISHMENT - Ainsignificant SHIBBOLETH / aSINEQUANON The death of one louse of woman against hundreds of lives enriched - it's pures arithmetic.

An exciting newcollective European collaboration based on Dostoevsky' novel. ' A company whose imagination(not is rarely still' (23.00) Irish Times.

Aug 8) 22.00 Aug 7-14 16-21 midnight (01.00) £7.00 (£5.00) ★ ■ WAR!withbyTeatro street experience. show presented Spanishplea Theatre Company 20 yearsofMargen.A of professional War isbyaapacifist criticising the Augsour 12-14business 22.00 use (23.00)warFreeby both American cinema and the mass media. ★ ■visual PATHWAYS THEATRE COMPANY - BAGGAGE A highly physical and production fusing liveof music, projected image and powerful performance an exploration the mental illness anorexia.

Baggage aAugworld7-21of(not secrets, of surprises, a search for control. unveils Suns)a fairground 16.00 (17.00) £7.00 (£5.00) ★ ■ SONGS FROM DIARY WETZIKONER HAUSFRAU Drawings, turned poems,THE turned songsOFperformed in process of visualisations spontaneous composition.

Depicting a daring exploratory journey into inner “humorous throughout... ofAugself.Voice: Jeanine Osborne, piano: Martin Kunz 9-14 18.00 (19.00) £7.00 (£5.00) dialogue superbly entwined with dance. ” DIAKONOS PHYSICAL THEATRE 00©©0 Dziennik Zachodni, Poland Venue 62 - Continental Shifts at St Bride's, 10 Orwell Terr. Tickets 346 1405 K5 ★ ■ SOMETHING TO REMEMBER ME BY Powerful and haunting, Secrets 2.00 pm 16-21 August exploring the extreme contrasts of despair, hope, fear and defiant, sacrificial love.

Set in Terezin ghetto duringof struggle, WW2, centering around poems written Hotel Nada 9.00 pm £3 & £5 by children.

An intimate dreams and freedom.

Venue 109 Next to St. Mary’s Cathedral 0131 473 2000 Aug 16-28 (not 22) 14.story 00 (15.30) £6.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 11 + Sponsored by Living Well Health Clubs & the Australian Dept of Foreign Affairs and Trade 45

THE ELEMENTS ®0©©O Venue 126 - C cubed, St John's Hall,West End, Princes Street Tickets 225 5105 19 ★know ■ AWAKENING JUSTICE Thebeatoldblack-and-blue woman who lives inreturning a shoe doesn' t what to do the children she are for revenge...

Powerful African drumming calls us to break the cycles of the past in this6,8,10,13,15,17,20,22,24,27,29 controversial cross-culture dance-drama.

Aug 22.00 (23.00) £6.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 12+ ★ ■while MADEa tiger OF stalks CLAYSouth Inspired by classical the live music, shapesfeeta block clay, Indian dancers,toa sculptor dancing their away. of Unaware of impending danger, they seek the power shape their own lives.

Aug 7,9,12,14,16,19,21,23,26,28,30 22.00 (23.00) £6.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 10+ ■Scotland DANCEin aINDIA LIVE!combining The mosttheexhilarating Indian danceSouth company programme cool beauty of pure Indianin classicalanddance withhumour' contemporary movements.

'A perfect oasis of calm, grace gentle The Herald.

Aug I 1,18,2514.019.0 (15.00) 30 (20.30) £6.00 (£5.00) Aug 28-30

authentic Japanese Butoh and live jazz are all at this ultimate dance venue.

■Featuring TRADITIONAL MUSIC CONTEMPORARY DANCE Caroline(DV8-AMP) Reagh with -&Karen Stevens on fiddle/crash - tap shoe.

Stephen Kirkham metal meets flesh, flesh meets j||I Aug 24-29 12.30 (13.30) £7.00 (£5.00) ■Drama WORKSHOPS Contemporary Dance; Physical Theatre; Cuban Salsa; t & Movement; Call venue for detailsButoh; Egyptian & Persian Dancing; Breakdancing; Hip Hop. | | ■Fringe COROBOREE IN NIGHT SULLIED FLESH Nominated for Irish i award.23.15Punkettes, prositutes. (Contains offensive language).

Aug 6-15 (00.15) cruisers, £7.00 (£5.00) |l ■Dance LAURIE BOOTH with ' S tudio on the Green' and ' G o For It' Integrated (6th - 9th).

Aug 6-15Company 16.30 (17.30) £7.00Laurie (£5.00)Booth in Nightwalk (10th - 15th).

■Glorious STEINVOR PALSSON (with X-Factor Foundation). musicAllanaccompanies class Scottish& Curve contemporary dancers.

Guest6-1artists Greig £7.00 and first Ross Cooper.

Aug I 18.

1 5 (19.15) (£5.00) I 157 PERFORMANCE GROUP .-0ko(UK) tfT ■ MORI PORTI (I WOULD DIE FORhisYOU) Venue 126 - C cubed, St John's Hall, West End, Princes Street Tickets 225 5105 watches sleeping. hunger(£5.00) bruises soul. He steals her underwear... ] Aug 6-15her22.15 (23.15)His£7.00 ★hands ■ SWAHILI GODOT by Robin Fulford.

Beautifully flawed we were, flaming red hotit. Digital torchesart.onStunning your skin.projection.

O how beautiful ■(17th-22nd) FRESH MESS IONAcontemporary KEWNEY dance Awardandwinning breakdance the flaw,likeandtorches, I never mentioned CubanAND Salsa with traditional fiddle crew. 1] Choreography by David McCormick (DV8).

(24th-29th).

Aug 6-30 (not 12,18) 23.15 (00.15) £7.00 (£5.00) Aug 17-22 16.

3 0 (17.30) £7.00 (£5.00) Aug 24-29 14.30 (15.30) EVGUENI PANFILOV S BALLET OOOOO ■ FIONNA DUNCAN, RONNIE RAE TRIO WITH SHERIDAN Venue 62 - Continental Shifts at St Bride's, 10 Orwell Terr. Tickets 346 1405 K5 Aug NICOL JAZZ(01.15) ART UK 24-26ANDmidnight £7.00World (£5.00)class singing and incendiary dance. 2 ■substance MOORLAND In the aspiration to thetheWorld Spirit you seesubstance the spiritual ■ TORIFUNE in the uncovered bloody flesh, unity of human BUTOHSHAWITH KAYO MIKAME Japanese movement ascending to Death. Theofchoreographer transfers the national worldly (17th- 22nd). Clout Performance Company & Thomas Ramsay : Passion Centli 3 drama the world (12th - 15th).

Aug 9-14into 14.the30crystal (15.15) £6.00 (£4.00)tragedy.

Suitable for ages 12+ Templeton: Aug 12-22 meditative 18.15(19.15)movement £7.00 (£5.00) ■Buster LEIKENLOPPU IN THE TAILORS Wildly absurd dance in the style of ] Keaton...

Aug 24-29 14.30seething (15.30) fury... £7.00rolling (£5.00)eyes... hilarious gags.

present! t ic uniijue culture ar "Libby" to a tM Libby was a v®n who [ . Aug.8/io/S5/i6/i$/i a compelling tale about the life of ca's beloved paii|er>

\ GARAGE THEATRE Venue 81 Grindiay Ciurt Centre Tel 1131 221 9119 http://www.hk.airnet.ne.jp/art/

■ ANDRW INMonologue THE MEMORY PALACE Anna Kryzystek in zer-O, and Jane16.HOWITT Aug 24-29 1Mason 5 (17.15)in A£7.00 (£5.00) About Shipwrecks. Fantastic triple bill.

■andDYING JOY' SwhoCOMPANY She Laugh used toorbecrysowith beautiful, now she'FOR swoman dying.IT..WITH What for?

ButDeath, cares anyway?

Joy and find out.

One show about the Universe (Ecology) and Everything.

Aug 6-15 18.00 (19.00) £7.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 12+ ■performer' MIMI LAs life,SARDINE Wendy Buenaventura & Company.TalesSpain. of a withherdance inspired

by Egypt, Mimi conjures uphead pasttheroles, bawdy, poeticPersia & tragic,& Moorish including Salome dancing for the of Baptist.

Aug 18-29 (not 23) 22.05 (23.20) £7.00 (£5.00) FRANTIC REDHEAD PRODUCTIONS 0O©©O Venue 55 - Randolph Studio, Inst Francais d’Ecosse, 13 Randolph Cres. Tickets 225 5366 H8 ■sensually ONCEintoxicating UPON ATIME Clever narrative, thrilling movement, humour, a kinetic journey combining jazz, ballet and modern dance.

The dynamicdance innovative choreography is bybyUniversity of Nevada, Las Vegas professional faculty and performed UNLV dancers.

Aug 7-30 (not 17,23,24) 13.45 (15.00) £5.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 8+

AFRICAN

EXPERIENCE A dynamic fusion of African Dance from South Africa, Mali and Senegal featuring 23 exciting performers

GLOBAL DANCE WORKS OOO©© Venue 81 - The Garage Theatre, Grindlay Court Centre, Grindlay Street Tickets 221 9009 K9 ★muse.

■ BLUE & RED an entertaining, high-energy production with a comic It featuresandhot,swing. happening multi-genre dance theatre including extreme jazz/tap/ballet Thisallshow features William Robertson' s choreography that will delight and inspire ages.

Aug 22-30 13.00 (14.00) £6.00 (£5.00) GUMBOOTS ®0©©0 Venue 26 - Gilded Balloon at the Palladium, Broughton Place Tickets 226 2151 G14 ■African GUMBOOTS Twelve bare-chested, sexy and supremely talented South men explode ontophysically the stageamazing, in an extravaganza of dance,its audiences rhythm and song.aMusically brilliant,celebration gumbootslife. enthralls with boot(notslapping of urban£9.50 African Aug 7-30 8,16,23) 19.

0 0 (20.15) (£8.50) Aug 14,15,21,22 15.15 (16.30) Aug 28-30 13.45 (15.00) Suitable for ages 10+ JAPAN EXPERIENCE OO©©© Venue 81 - The Garage Theatre, Grindlay Court Centre, Grindlay Street Tickets 221 9009 K9 ■Japanese EGIKUculture HANAYAGI JAPANESE DANCES The beauty and is portrayed dances 'Spring has and 'byTherichness Crow'in .aof Basedthaton cantraditional techniqueandinbuttheexperienced choreographed and Gone' expressed Egiku way be understood by all.

Aug 8-30 15.00 (15.45) £6.00 (£5.00) ■ KUMIKOYAMAGUCHI - BODYTALK Smooth flowing modern technique and innovative trained York,andshedance has taken thesodance form andimprovisation.Though hasmovement added a Japanese subtletyinsoNew delicate fragile but with much control in and emotion.

Aug 15-30 18.30 (19.10) £6.00 (£5.00)

[Directed by Wendy de la Harpe I Monday to Saturday Also Book at Fringe Box Daily at 7.00 p.m.

Office 0131 226 5138 JONATHAN BURNETT - SOLO MIME ®0©00 Venue 41 - Hil Street Theatre, 19 Hil Street Tickets 226 6522 H10 ★TwoTHE BALLAD OF BRANWELL BRONTE/ MEDEA!!

Gothic Pantomimes: a virtuoso one-man ' W uthering Heights' , and a Baroque extravaganza on the'A legend of thechoreographic Golden Fleece.talent' Stage ''HAaunting and gripping' Scotsman. remarkable very worthwhile event' Evening News.

Aug 7-18 11.50 (12.50) £4.00 (£3.00) ROSIE KAY OOO©© Venue 4 - C too, St Columba's by the Castle, Johnston Terrace Tickets 225 5105 K10 ★Theatre, ■ ABSOLUTE SOLO Rosie Kay, a Scottish dancer from Polish Dance presents her first show.Three solos explore decadence and destruction, vanity andexpressive beauty. Inspiration from Weimar cabaret to Colette.

This powerful Aug is23-30 (not and 29) 11.15 (12.05)dance£5.00theatre. (£4.00) LA COMPAGNIE ORANGE SANGUINE OQ©©0 Venue Shifts at Springwell House,Ardmillan Terrace, off Gorgie Rd. Tickets32346- Continental 1405 (St Brides) >£ ★ ■ L'EMBARQUEMENT Icebergs, a hugewithshipwreck, themusic fate and of 2200 passengers.

Three clowns using interactions a film, live visual theatre, tell theirsilentversion of the sinking of the Titanic in a style reminiscent ofAugthe9-28 ancient (not Suns)movies.

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MAGAPAR OOOOO Venue 81 - The Garage Theatre, Grindlay Court Centre, Grindlay Street Tickets 221 9009 K9 ★ ■ olds THEwhoLIGHT Baseduponwords the myth of Prometheus, performed by of16-17 year have given forbetween language of the body.Theatre and illusion traversing thes quest boundaries childhood/ maturity, truth/light illusion revealing man' for a perfect place on Earth.

Aug 8-14 19.00 (19.30) £3.50 (£2.50) MOVERS OO©©© Venue 81 -The Garage Theatre, Grindlay Court Centre, Grindlay Street Tickets 221 9009 K9 ★then■ slither MOVERS We promise to move you: New Dance Species.

First Genesis, through primordial slime,andshake yourself off and witness evolve onto dancefloor.

With Mo-Seph' sa drums eclectro-soundtrack, the the apocalypse and leave with cheeky, chilled smile.

Aug 15-30 19.30 (20.30) £5.00 (£2.50) MOVING IN THE SPIRIT OOOOO Venue 40 - The Quaker Meeting House,Victoria Terrace Tickets 220 6109 J11 ★sensations ■ RATTLE High energy, witty movement theatre with images and aural to shake the sensibilities and jiggle the belly with laughter.

This American cast ofrolescharacters jostles stereotypical viewssculpture. of women, genre and audience through(£3.50) story, dance and musical Aug 9-14 18.30 (20.00) £5.00 NO LIMITS THEATRE COMPANY OO0OO Venue 40 - The Quaker Meeting House,Victoria Terrace Tickets 220 6109 J11 precision and intellegence.

IsA NottVEfXK ★with■ hisEXILE One man' s world is turned upside down as he becomes obsessed RF.PURITQUF own image and the manipulation of others.

Professional artists with learning disabilities combineandexpressive movement with intense physical theatre KOMEDIA @ SOUTHSIDE v&nue 82 creating a truly absorbing powerful production.

Aug 16-21 21.00 (22.00) £4.50 (£2.50) Suitable for ages 12+ August 10-22 at 13.45 Box office tel: 0131 667 2212 J J NO ORDINARY ANGELS/CULTURA INGLESA-SP oo©©o Venue 62 - Continental Shifts at St Bride's, 10 Orwell Terr. Tickets 346 1405 KS ★man ■ DEADLY explores the Seven Deadlyfrustrations Sins in a relationship between aWith and a woman, its battles, pleasures, and inevitable complicity. no pause between happiness and disaster, Deadly is a dangerous mix of theatre, circus.

AUG 28 ATSHIFTS12.30 Aug 16-28 dance 12.30and (13.20) £6.00 (£4.00) CONTI16-VENTU AT ST(13.20) BRIDE'62S VENUE 10 ORWELL TERRACE PUSSY GALORE S FLYING CIRCUS OOQOO PHONE 0131 3461405 Venue 90 - Graffiti,Corner Broughton and East London Streets Tickets 557 8330 GI3 ★high■ andPUSSY GALORE' S FLYING CIRCUS Come and climb thirty feet witnesscircus the theatre unique relationship between a girl and and her gay brother.

Death defying - ofcombined with an emotional intimate family portrait featuring the music Craig Armstrong.

Aug 10-12,15-19 22.40 (23.25) £5.00 (£4.00) ijpgCuijura NOLA RAE 00©©Q Venue 82 - Komedia @ Southside, 117 Nicolson Street Tickets 667 2212 M12 ■musical MOZART PREPOSTEROSO Nola Rae' s astonishing portrait of the geniusinfant exposes Mozart the clownof toopera, an unsuspecting public.hilariously [presents Manipulated prodigy or emperor Mozartlunacy remained and provokingly absurd.

Buffoonery, music and inspired for all.

Aug 10-22 13.45 (15.00) £7.50 (£5.50) Suitable for ages 7+ THE ROYAL& SCOTTISH OF MUSIC DRAMA ACADEMY 000©0 Venue 13 - Harry Younger Hall, Lochend Close, Canongate Tickets 07050 161320 JI5 ★Open ■ OPEN WINDOW Was someone watching you watching someone? window presentsand'Hdance allaig', a dynamic pieceofofSorley ScottishMcLean.

PhysicalHallaig!

Theatre fusing original music the poetry Get mad bongos!£4.00 with Aug 23-28with17.the30 (19.00) (£2.00) THE RUBBER BAND OOQOO Venue 123 - Rocket Venue @ South Bridge Resource Ctr, Infirmary Street Tickets 558 9991 KI3 ★ ■motion.

HANDLE WITH A fusioncheck? of literal poetic anyway? imagery, text and Are you readyCARE for a reality Whatandis reality Aug Aug 8-14 15-21 14.16.0050(14.45) (17.35) £5.00 (£3.50)

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WITH NO PAUSE BETWEEN HAPPINESS AND DISASTER, "DEADLY" IS A DANGEROUS MIX OF THEATRE, DANCE AND CIRCUS. (MADE IN BRAZIL - SPOKEN IN ENGLISH)

shakti ooeeo Venue 81 - The Garage Theatre, Grindlay Court Centre, Grindlay Street Tickets 221 9009 K9 ■pureSWAN LAKE From the muddy lake within us the white swan screams beckons.

Amidst theall ofturmoil new creature born - the illusion,desire glittering &seen. reflecting love &a death, agony &isecstacy!

Unlikeultimate any Swan Lake you' v e Shocking!

Aug 8-30 22.00 (23.00) £8.00 (£7.00) SPIT & POLISH THEATRE 0O©©O Venue 23 - Chaplaincy Centre, I Bristo Square Tickets 662 8882 LI2 ★style■ ofTHEphysical GILDED CAGE Passionate, comic, disturbing.

Eastern European theatre combined with video film of Polish countryside mixed with the footage of globalfor movement refugees.Young girl leaves traditions and sense of belonging the affluentofWest.

Aug Aug 7-17 20-30 16.11.3015(17.40) (12.25) £6.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 12+ STRICTLY SCOTTISH 00©00 Venue 111 - St Andrew's & St George's Church, 13 George Street Tickets 225 3847 H11 ■Country STRICTLY SCOTTISH isanda miscellany of all thatin isa beautiful best in Scottish Dancing, music, song verse.

Performed Adam setting, it is a splendid spectacle lift the(£6.00) spirits and get feet tapping.

Aug 30 (21.30) to£7.00 Aug 2117-2116.019.0 (18.00)

Dance & Physical Theatre 20:21 PERFORMANCE 0O©©O Venue 82 - Komedia @ Southside, 117 Nicolson Street Tickets 667 2212 M12 ★other' ■ SCRATCH On Valentine' s Day 1998, two friends scratched at each s surface...

And something gave way.

In 70 minutes of physical, visual, 20:21 examine we choose to hide. And truth will out. 'incisive Visceral,theatre, angry, intelligent theatre'what£5.00 Guardian.

Previews Aug 6-8 12.

0 5 (13.15) Aug 9-29 12.05 (13.15) £7.00 (£4.50) (£3.00)

UNITED WELFARE UNION, NEPAL OOOOO Venue 125 - St Mark's Unitarian Church, Castle Terrace J9 ★The■agonies I COMEandFROM THE HIMALAYAS Story of the Gurkhas (in English).in ecstasies of the Gurkhas, hitherto famous for their gallantry the Britishfolk Army, as they face the disbandment of their battalions. With typical Nepalese Aug 31-Sept 3dances.

17.30 (19.00) £7.00 (£6.00) Suitable for ages 5+ VENUE 13 ®QOOO Venue 13 - Harry Younger Hall, Lochend Close, Canongate Tickets 07050 161320 J15 ★ ■ C.O.D. Panpsychist Physical Theatre.The Welsh Valleys would have TALKING BODIES 000©0 provided three friends with the perfect state of communism; if not sex, drugs Venue 45 - Old St. Paul's Church & Hall,Jeffrey Street Tickets 556 0476 JI3 and C.O.D. Occasionally sick and frequently crass, this is a Euro-crash battle for ■of STRIPTEASE MON-AMOUR It's our bodyandthat remembers the wounds individual supremacy. our soul.

With poetic video, slide projection powerful vocal-dance, this multi-media project creates an intense atmosphere, charting the history of our Aug 6-14 18.20 (19.30) £7.00 (£5.00) soul in modern society.

WHISPERING EYES OO©©© Aug 9-14, 23-28 23.00 (midnight) £4.50 (£3.00) Venue 19 - C, Over-Seas House, 100 Princes Street Tickets 225 5105 110 * ■ EL REBUSQUE bywillJ J doMorales 'El Flaco' . Comedy confronts calamity in a THEATRE TALI POT 0O©©O graveyard, anyone anything to make a fast buck.

Music, mime and Venue 62 - Continental Shifts at St Bride's, 10 Orwell Terr. Tickets 346 1405 K5 mimicry mixwhere with breathless South American rhythms and charisma. A unique ■TheTHE WATER CARRIERS 'You shouldn't sell-out live without seeingthethisspiritual show' piece of Colombian theatre.£6.00Electrifying.

Scotsman.

Return of 1998'physical s award-winning hitofabout Aug 15-30 15.45 (16.35) (£5.00) Suitable for ages 12+ power of water.

A dazzlingly yet emotional show dance, mime and song from Reunion Island (Indian Ocean).

Aug 5-28 (not Suns) 16.00 (17.20) £8.50 (£7.00) Suitable for ages 10+ ★ ■multi-level PASSAGEconsciousness European premiere.

A journey through time, parallel worlds and to the rebirth of spirit and mind.

Combining contemporary theatre this withshow mixed-blood performing traditionsoffrom Africa and the Indian Ocean, moves on our understanding humanity.

Aug 5-28 (not Suns) 18.00 (19.30) £8.50 (£7.00) Suitable for ages 10+ Get more out CAMILLE THOMAN ©Q©©0 of the Festival with The List & Venue 82 - Komedia @ Southside, 117 Nicolson Street Tickets 667 2212 M12 ★body■ NUMB B Boardwalk Productions present ' n umb b' , a story about the toldandbyredemptive the body. 'Abeauty.This startling physical parable of bodily Get out more horror piece willher' stayThewith you.' transformation, Entropy 'Aug Terrific, startling...Thoman draws you into Stage.

6-29 (not 16,23) 16.15 (17.05) £7.50 (£5.50) Suitable for ages 11 + THEATRE, FILM, DANCE, COMEDY] THOUGHT-FORMS PRODUCTIONS OOOOO Venue 188 - Calton Centre, 121 Montgomery Street H17 MUSIC, CLUBS, ART, TV, BOOKS ■presentation AMERICAN CHOREOGRAPHERS' SHOWCASES An exciting of unlimited creativity.The American Choreographers enjoy the FOOT | the I JAZZ difficulties of their brilliant choreographies.They haveOffstyle,d'Athey have'95.class.

The most remarkable dance performance of Festival vignon THE Nuits8-15 d'Ete 19.en30Provence/Avignon, France.

Aug (20.30) £5.50 (£4.50) Suitable for ages 8+ TUJU TAKSU - MASKED DANCE THEATRE OO©©© Venue 81 - The Garage Theatre, Grindlay Court Centre, Grindlay Street Tickets 221 9009 K9 LIST ★ ■ TUJU - MASKED DANCE San Francisco based troupe evokesTAKSU the spirits ofmasks original BalineseusTHEATRE masks to create powerful modern GLASGOW AND EDINBURGH performance theatre.

The transport to a magical realm of archetype and EVENTS GUIDE Augmyth 15-30that(nottranscends 23) 18.30cultural (19.45) boundaries. £8.00 (£7.00)European Premiere.

MUSK TURBOZONE OO©©© :00D& DRINK, CABARET, JAZZ Venue 192 The Quad Uni v ersi t y Old College Quad, South Bri d ge Tickets 662 8740 (George Sq Theatre) K12 THEATRE, FILM. DANCE, COMEDY] ★ the ■ TURBOZONE PRESENTS CINDERELLA Inthanthisliferadical adaptation ofproduction traditional fairy tale Turbozone present a larger boldly inventive Five special issues bursting with reviews, news featuring livepyrotechnics, DJs, video aerial projections, swinging trapeze, bungyandjumping, and a round-the-clock guide of what to see at the mechanical sculpture, motorbike stunts, spaceships six metre16-25,27,28,30 puppets. 21.30 (22.45) £ 12.00 (£9.00) Edinburgh Festival and Fringe.

Aug New issues out on Thursday 22 July, 5, 12, 19 & 26 August £1.95 from all good newsagents 49

Music ACOUSTIC UNDERGROUND AT THE TRON ®O©©0 Venue 9 - The Iron, 9 Hunter Square, High Street Tickets 226 0931 K12 ■of POLLY PHILLIPS Delicate acoustic feel ofwithsongsa spikey twist.

On theandverge something big with her eclectic collection about love, rage cross-dressing. of Sinead O'Connor with a tinsy bit of PJ Harvey's edge' Scotsman.'Echoes Aug 8,15,22,29 20.45 (22.30) £5.00 (£3.00) ■ WORD They saidGraeme the nextMearns, poet laureate wouldJohnny be a popDredd, star. Awardwinning songwriters Hollytake Tomas, MacGlone and New Zealand' s Angela Fox, you from chalk to Ruairidh cheesy listening.

Hosted by Peter Michael Rowan.

Aug 2,9,16,23,30 20.45 (22.30) £5.00 (£3.00) ■Fringe' EDINBURGH SHOWCASE trueESSspirit of the Theof the List 'Edinburgh 98. SONGWRITERS' Followingmusicthescene. hugelyEstablished successful acts 1998andThe show,open the bestknows mic.is back with Who what will happen?!

Aug 3,10,17,24 20.30 (22.30) £2.00 ■ HOLLY TOMAS 'Searing purity' Radio inScotland.

Recent replacement for Eddi Reader, tipped to beAitch avocal household Britain' sunder answer to Sarah McLachlan, backed

by Spiteri' Dave (Fish, Mikename Heron).'99.'Bubbling Shirley Manson and Sharleen Li s t .

Aug 4,1 1,18,25 20.45 (22.30) £5.00 (£3.00) ■CoraSWELLING MEG vocals, Whatever theybass, say, it'acoustic s alwaysguitar something different.

Bissett' s stunning double andlyricism, tablas allurban add uppoptoballad something you' v e never heard before.

Embracing Celtic and gypsy mysticism Rock and Roll!

Aug 5,12,19,26 20.45 (22.30) £5.00 (£3.00) AFRIDONIA ooeeo Venue 117 -Viewforth Centre, 104 Gilmore Place Tickets 229 7659 M6 ■of THE MAGIC OF AFRICA AFRIDONIA 2000 Exhilirating fusion the cultureofandmusic, dancesdanceof Africa & Scotland - thrillIntertwined to this exciting extravaganza and sounds of Africa. with Scottish Aug 9-28music, (not ceilidh Suns) and 20.00dance.

(22.00) £5.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 5+ ALASDAIR FRASER’S SKYEDANCE OOOOO Venue 72 - The Queen's Hall, Clerk Street Tickets 668 2019/cc 667 7776 N13 ■ ALASDAIR FRASER' S performer SKYEDANCE With sspecial guest Bachue.

Widely regarded as the top of Scotland' rich fiddling tradition, Fraser continues his ground-breaking musical journey at theCeltic helmmusicians. of this accomplished of America' s finest Aug 11 19.30six-piece (22.00) £featuring 10.50,£8.50some(£8.50,£7.50) ARBOREA MUSICA 000©0 Venue IN - St Andrew's & St George's Church, 13 George Street Tickets 225 3847 HU ARBOREA MUSICA The woodwind players ofinternationally the 'acclaimedrespected period instrument group' The Guardian, join forces with keyboard player lain'Deserved Simcockreputation' for this year'Herald. s Fringe.

'The excellent ArboreaNews.

Musica' Scotsman.

'Splendid series' Evening ■BachTHEandITALIAN INFLUENCE Vivaldi, Albinoni, Corelli: their on others, shown'Splendid in virtuoso works forRecords oboes,and recorder andinfluence continue and solo harpsichord. oboe playing' Recording. ' R espected performer’ Magazine. rance's greatest organist' Courier de I'Ouest.

Aug 23,25 Recorder 14.30 (16.15) £6.00'F(£5.00) THE3 OBSERVER ®0©©O1 I Venue - Assembly Rooms, 54ASSEMBLY George Street Tickets 226 2428 ■in Casualty, REBECCA WHEATLEY BY ACCIDENT Now best known as Amy Rebecca returns to herAmusical roots, with hertalent. band, to surprise and delight a whole new audience. brilliant and unique 'A voice flowing with milk, sex and honey' Evening Standard.

Aug Aug 6-12,15-19 13,14,20-22 17.17.4545(19.00) (19.00) £8.00 £9.00(£7.00) (£8.00) ★ MIKAMika,-THE ANGELTOUR Bigger, bolder, than ever - istaste the mighty so full-on it must be a come-on.

Hisinkybetter brand new. Warning... show a living music video with sounds that bite and it' s all ' k but true' nine nights only. 23.45 (01.00) £9.00 (£8.00) Aug Aug 23-26,30 22,27-29 23.45 (01.00) £10.00 (£9.00) ★ ■music ANONYMOUS SOCIETY AnBREL.This acclaimedevent international re-invents the ofEurope. the legendary thrillingcast audiences throughout Only UKinJACQUES dates! Radio 'Defines2. the art of ismusical theatre.

The best thing I have seen years' Aug Aug 6-12,15-19 13,14,20,21 23.45 23.45(01.00) (01.00) £8.00 £9.00(£7.00) (£8.00) 50

TERRY 1998.

NEASON - LOVE BITES! will *****leaveScotsman, and Herald Angel side Award j Winner Hermost vocal performance delirious the other coitus!

'By far out the gripping music' People.

'Hyouer brilliant timing challengingof || allAug comedians in Fringeland' Herald.

20.55(21.55) (21.55)£9.00 £8.00(£8.00) (£7.00) Aug 6-12,15-19,23-26,30 13,14,20-22,27-29 20.55

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BARACOA CUBAN NIGHTS ®0©©O Venue 172 - Baracoa, 7Victoria Street Kl I !

HSalsaBARACOA CUBAN NIGHTS like Cuban Culture are very sociable. lessons, Cuban folk and the infamous Cuban brothers are just a small part ofof this.

The finestheart Cuban food. Cigars and cocktails will show anyone the soul AugCuba 5-29in the 19.00 (03.00)of Edinburgh.

Free BARE AND RAGGED THEATRE 00©00 Venue 123 - Rocket Venue @ South Bridge Resource Ctr, Infirmary Street Tickets 558 9991 KI3 ■which MALEDICTION Music, movement and dance combine in a musical promises- andto range from rock to ofjazz,sound classical tovisual folk,art,straight tocouldevent experimental more!

Using a wall and minds well Aug be16-21blown.18.Armageddon.

40 (19.45) £6.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 14+ THE BONGO CLUB - OUT OF THE BLUE ®0©©0 Venue 143 - The Bongo Club, out of the blue, 14 New Street (off Royal Mile) Tix 556 5204 J14 ■liveOUT THE BLUE PRESENTS abundant cornucopia of exquisite music,OFallstyles night,which everydefy night; jazz, folk, An world, pop, classical, cabaret, andFringe other magnificent description.

Details from the Bongo Club '99 programme or Box£ 10.00 Office.(£8.00) Aug 6 22.25 (05.00) Aug 8,15,22,29 20.55 (05.00)22.25£6.00 (£4.00) Aug Aug 9-12,16-19,23-26,30 13,20,27 22.25 (05.00) £8.00(05.00) (£6.00)£5.00 ■Messenger CLUBS Sound Al's AllSystem Night Jokeshop - Edinburgh' s reggae... sole livevibes television nightclub.

- upfront Latino - music from Cuba toandBrazilsoul... plus liveroots guests.& dub Headspin - 4 decksalive! mixingClubhip-hop, trip-hop, funk, house Aug 7 22.00 (05.00) £8.00 (£6.00) Aug 14 23.0022.30(05.00) Aug 21,28 (05.00)£8.00£8.00(£7.00) (£6.00) CALEDONIAN FOLK AT THE GUILDFORD OOQOO Venue 107 - Guildford Arms, I West Register St(off East End Princes St) Tickets 556 4312 112 YARD OF byALEEdinburgh' The tops Caledonian local acousticBrewery. band host ten nights of great music.

Sponsored ■withMOSE SCARLETT Virtuoso Canadian ragtime & jazz guitarist/vocalist on secondFreeguitar.

Aug Jim12 Condie 20.00 (midnight) ■Sandy BLUE HYENAS Dynamic and talented Edinburgh bluesmen Tweedale Gary Martin.

Aug 13,20 20.00and(midnight) Free Superb acoustic blues.

■Great BLACK BIDDY Ever songs EYED and foot-tappin' tunes.popular folk duo from the West Coast.

Aug 15,17 20.00 (midnight) Free ■harmonicas DOCTOR CHICAGO Acoustic, Electric, Slide & Lap Steel guitars, vocals. American Aug 16 20.00and(midnight) Free Roots at its best.

■by EDDIE WALKER Rags,. Country & Original material performed s finest AugEngland' 14,18,19 20.00'picker' (midnight) Free ■'C.F.F' MIKEin hisWHELANS The style. amazingMissone-man own inimitable this andblues miss band out. rounds off the Aug 21 20.00 (midnight) Free CEILIDHS ATTHE OO©©©M2 Venue 183 - Caledonian Brewery, 42CALEY Slateford Road ■PartyCEILIDHS ATTHE CALEY Participate in a ' r eel' Scottish ceilidh.

Foot-stomping Greatwith beer,some good offoodScotland' and lives best music.bands.

All welcome.

Doorsfunopenandatjigging.

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Aug 13,14,20,21,27,28,Sept 4 20.00 (midnight) £6.00 (£5.00) CHEEKY MONKEY 00©©0 Venue 9 - The Tron, 9 Hunter Square, High Street Tickets 226 0931 K12 ■yearCHEEKY MONKEY The dynamic DJ duo who brought you ' C heese' last return!

And it' s FREE! New bigger venue, lots more top 80s pop and truly terrible disco. Free bananas and monkey nuts. Book free tickets to guarantee70sadmission.

Aug 13,14,20,21,27,28 21.00 (03.00) Free

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CHEESE 2K AT DOCTOR WATTS LIBRARY 00©@0 Venue 92 - Dr Watt's Library, 3 Robertson's Close, Cowgate Info 557 3768 KI3 CHEESE 2Kmore...Edinburgh' Wham, Abba,Tiffany, Dukes of Hazard,Take That,mature Marrs,forRolfthe Harris and s original dealers of cheese goes second yearbringing of moulding festival70s, madness.

DJ's will mould the millennium the best 80s£3.00 andSelected 90s cheese.

Aug 13,14,20,21,27,28 21.00of(03.00) THE CLARSACH (SCOTTISH HARP) SOCIETY00©©0 Venue 111 - St Andrew's & St George's Church, 13 George Street Tickets 225 3847 H11 ■ FESTIVAL CEILIDH A colourful fusion of Scottish musicentertain and culture!

Scotland' s unique Harp Orchestra, na Clarsairean, and guests a seated audience with an eclectic programme of ensemble and solo playing, singing, storytelling, Aug 27 19.0bagpiping 0 (22.00) and£7.00dancing. (£6.00) Suitable for ages 5+ ■ THE SONG ANDafternoon THE STORY IsobelofMieras presents a poetry relaxing and entertaining Sunday programme traditional music, songthefeaturing Scottish ballads, songs by Burns and his contemporaries and through toAug present day.

22 14.30 (16.15) £7.00 (£6.00) Suitable for ages 5+ ■ CEOL MOR, CEOL BEAG Judithin aPeacock, clarsach-player with leading traditional band,The Whistlebinkies, programme of mainly Gaelic music and song, 17th Century Aug 23including 19.30 (21.30) £7.00 harp (£6.00)tunes, haunting laments and lively Suitabledancefor tunes. ages 5+ ■FIDDLE) CATRIONA MCKAY (CLARSACH), CHRISpartnership STOUT (SHETLAND Top young Scottish musicians in perfect combine individual virtuositymusic.They' and maturevemusicianship to createfrom theirShetland own distinctive style ofwith traditional delighted audiences to Seattle sparkling, dynamic performances.

Aug 24 19.30 (21.30) £7.00 (£6.00) Suitable for ages 5+ ■ FAT HEN Triounusual including well-known- clarinet, Scottish euphonium, harpist Wendy Stewart, featuring combinations harmony singing andharpmorein between - in a wide-ranging repertoire of traditional bass, and original music oscillating the haunting and the high-octave.

Aug 25 19.30 (21.30) £7.00 (£6.00) Suitable for ages 5+ ■ FIDDLE, HARPreturn, ANDblending VOICEslow Twoairs, veterans of the Fringe, Isobel Mieras and Jim Ferguson jigs, strathspeys, reels, stopping laments and traditional songs into a fascinating tapestry ofheartnew and old Scottish music.

Aug 26 19.30 (21.30) £7.00 (£6.00) Suitable for ages 5+

Music Venue 185 - The Magdalen Chapel, 41 Cowgate Info 667 4645 Kl I ■ NOwithSTRINGS ATTACHED Leta sixwideinspiring young musicians entertain you their own arrangements of variety of music ranging from O'Carolan to Eltonthere John. Whether interest is classical or pop, there will something you. your Augbe17-20 (not 19) 20.00for (21.45) £6.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 5+ ■Rosemary A SCOTS MEASURE In the historic setting of the Magdalen McKerchar andSongs Ian and Inglisdances presentfroma lively programme forChapel, voice, recorders and ciarsach. the Scottish Court and traditional the Borders.

Aug 19,21 music 20.00from (21.45)Shetland £6.00 to(£5.00) Suitable for ages 5+ CLASSY BITCH PRODUCTIONS 0O©OO Venue 106 - Christie's Comedy Cellar, 27-31 West Port, Grassmarket Tickets 228 3765 K10 ■ LIVINGnightROOM Popular weekly Edinburgh acoustic debutstheirLEGENDS/TRAVLER on instruments.

Fringe in session young,andhot and canpromotions. really play (Oohwith:TRAVLER.They' er). Nightly celebrityreguests drinks Aug 6-20 22.30 (23.45) £3.00 (£2.00) CLUB WEST 00©©0 Venue 182 -AveClu(next b WesttoatB&Q) the EdiTickets nburgh337Dance0748Centre, 10 Westfield (fromWestAugfiel8)d Halls, LI JOHN OTWAY CorLondon' Baby sit'Albert s Reallyhall.Him! Rock'n'Roll greatest failure? Never!

Not since he played Aug 8,15,22 22.00 (23.00) £8.00 (£7.00) THE DAVIDSON SINGERS ©OOOO Venue 131 - Greyfriars Kirk, Greyfriars Place, Candlemaker Row K11 ■ledTHE DAVIDSON SINGERS The New York City based chamber choir, by the irrepressible Dr.Virginia Davidson performs a programme of classics, folksongs of England, Scotland and Wales, Spirituals and a few surprises.

Admission donations Aug 4 19.3free, 0 (21.30) Free benefit Crusaid AIDS/HIV Hospice programmes.

CARIION Just for a laugh...

Don’t miss the Carlton Comedy Warehouse ... check out London’s freshest comedy talent.

DRAYTON COURT THEATRE COMPANY 00©©0 Venue 148 - Stockbridge House, 2 Cheyne Street F8 ■centenary; MAD ABOUT THE BOY Strictlyurbane Sonetime celebrate NoelandCoward's from the sophisticatedly lyrics of ' M ad Dogs' 'Mrs. Worthington' to theWsentimentally lavish 'Bitter Suite'.

With Anne Diack, Greig Hill and Aug 18,19,23,24,27 20.15 W(21.45) £7.00'Coward (£5.00) himself.

■ CRAZY FOR GERSHWIN Strictly Songtimetosalute the 'musical of America' greatest Tin-Pan Swanee'onlegacy totheir'Porgy and Bess's,tojoin Annetunesmith.

Diack, ElaineFromYoung, GreigAlley WW the Hill Met, and guests 'Aug Stairway Paradise' .

20,21,25,26,28 20.15 (21.45) £7.00 (£5.00) EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL oo©©o D - The Edinburgh International Book Fes, Charlotte'Square Gardens Tickets 624 SOSO H9 DUNCAN MCLEAN &THE SMOKING STONE BAND Show how& the West was swung with their unique blend of Orkney fiddle and Texan jazz blues.

Aug 15,16 21.00 (23.00) £7.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 12+ CUBAN CIGAR CLUB Steamy nightsofofBuena poetry,Vistapolitics and puffing recreating the sights, sounds and smells Salsa!

Aug 21,22 21.30 (23.30) £7.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 12+ ANNIE NIGHTINGALE Alegend uniauespinning club night with Britain's first and best female DJ. Simply a you out!

Aug 25 21.00 (03.00) £8.00 (£6.00) BERT JANSCH vocals One ofandthebrilliant world's greatest.The Jimmy Hendrix of acoustic guitar.

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Aug 6-8,11-15,18-22,25-29 20.30 (03.30) Free ■ CEILIDHS Let these festivalandfavourites dance you the wee- THE small MARWICKS hoursmidnight with swinging Auginto 6-8,13-15,20-22,27-29 (03.30)rhythm £7.50 (£5.50)reel kick!

■ LApulsating CHAVANNEE Hurdy-gurdies; bagpipes; Heart-felt music and dance (19.15) Ceilidh - French style,melodeon. try the bourree, schottische, mazurka and£7.50polka (midnight) Aug 25 19.

1 5 (21.05) (£5.50) Aug 25 midnight (02.30) £6.00 (£4.00) ■"harpist URSULA isBURNS AND WATERCRESS An eveningwithwitha twist.

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Scottish voice,B*E*L flute, bassoon and fiddles.Traditional and new Borders Aug 8,11 19.

4 5 (20.45) £7.00 (£5.00) Aug 27 19.15 (21.05) ■ BARRAGE Seven a four piece band from Canada rip and a highfiddle energyplayers stageandshow.

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Mmc' ■KatiKATI SZVORAK AND THE WATER CARRIERS Multi-award winningan Szvorak'house s virtuoso group folk, jazzmaterial and world uppretty tempo raising set Roots. forplaythetraditional, Fringe, 'beautiful with music a Balkanwithedge, wonderful stuff Folk Aug 16-19 00.15 (02.30) £7.50 (£5.50) ■Award ANDO DROM - AUTHENTIC HUNGARIAN GYPSY MUSIC winning, renowned Gypsy music group, topping World-Music charts to and spreading fantastically frenetic folklore throughout Europe.

Compared the Gypsy Kings and Loyko. ' W hat singing!... impassioned songs' **** Scotsman.

Aug 9-12 00.30 (02.30) £7.50 (£5.50) ■produce TARRAS The innovative, young Border country band who effortlessly Celtic music.

Aug 26 authentic 21.45 (23.30)English£7.50and(£5.50) ■mixture IRONofHORSE Take a break from European touring to bring their unique and tradition Aug 6 21.45musical (23.30)fire£7.50 (£5.50) to Edinburgh.

■music CLIAR break-neck The travellingboxmusicians poetsto bring tongue-twisting mouth fiddleandtunes Edinburgh.

Aug 7 and19.15(21.05) £7.50 and (£5.50) ■ MICK WESTimprovisations BAND'S fusion of powerful, singing with deserves as wide ansensitive, audiencetraditional as possible.

Aug fiery 7 21.45jazz(23.30) £7.50 (£5.50) ■about BRUCE DAVIES '...writes and sings better side ofAward-winning life, a(£5.50) pleasantsinger/songwriter alternative'. Sing Out Aug 12the21.45 (23.30) £7.50 ■Guitarist; VIN GARBUTT THEHumorist.

MAN! of British Folk Music. Singer; Songwriter; Whistle Player; Aug 11 19.15(21.05) £7.50 (£5.50) Funniest serious man on the scene!

■mouth DONALD BLACK AND MALCOLM JONES Scotland's finest traditional Scottish/Celtic Aug 11organ 21.45player (23.30)with£7.50 (£5.50) music, backed by guitar and accordian.

■fiddlers CLAIRE MCLAUGHLIN & MARIANNE The dynamic Deaf Shepherd.

Don' t miss this displayCAMPBELL of femme fatale exuberance.

Aug 13 from 19.15(21.05) £7.50 (£5.50) ■Celtic HARP: PHAMIE GOW Award-winning harpist, pianist and singer 99 Connections Festival. angelic combinations of instrument andat 'voice.

Aug 9,10 19.45 (20.45) £7.00Hear(£5.00) ■ TONY MCMANUS rare soloTheappearance from 'one of the most accomplished guitarists£7.50 inAEurope' Aug 21 19.15(21.05) (£5.50) Scotsman. One night only.

■ breathtaking SWAP Ian Carr, KarenofTweed, Ola Backstrom and Carina Normansson.

AAug exchange 24 21.45 (23.30) £7.50 Irish, (£5.50)Swedish and English traditional music.

■pieceFIDDLER' S BID In inconcert.The sensationalappearance sound of Shetland' only Edinburgh this year.s seven Aug 25fiddle21.45supergroup (23.30) £7.50their(£5.50) ■'TheTHE BUMBLEBEES Creating Shannon' a buzz ons sister, the IrishMary.music scene, A treat!

Aug 22Irish19,Poozies' 15 (21.05)includes £7.50Sharon (£5.50) ■Davies, PADDIE FOLKGillian FESTIVAL music:Mitchell, Bruce GerryBELL McKenna, McDonaldSHOW & FrankUnforgettable McLaughlin,Tony Sean John Wright Aug Pugh,The 17 19,15 (23.30) £ 10.00Band. (£8.00) ■- possibly JACKIEtheLEVEN Singing andbeautiful songs aptly described as 'Celtic Soul' most Aug 22 21.45 (23.30)formidable, £7.50 (£5.50) performer in the UK today.

■ COLIN REIDheAisnew hero' Guardian. 'As a performer and a 14composer, a£6.00 hugeacoustic talentguitar Independent.

Aug 21.00 (22.00) (£4.00) ■ GORDONwinner GILTRAP Acoustic guitarists rarely come more inventive than this Augmulti-poll 29 21,45 (23.30) with £7,50numerous (£5.50) albums and tuitional videos recorded.

■ OSSIAN Pipes,lainharp, fiddleandandStuart songs Morison. in Scots and Gaelic. Billy Ross, William Outstanding!

Aug 27 Jackson, 21.45 (23.30)Mclnnes £7.50 (£5.50) ■ TANNAHILL WEAVERS A driving and rhythm section, enthusiasm soaring pipes. Traditional original Celticunforgettable acoustic tunes with rock and energy.

Aug a28,29 19,15 (21.05) £8.00 (£6.00) HARP:provide KAREN MARSHALSAY & HEATHER YULE stories, Two Scottish SATORDvTrVfifAU G U STI ■harpists an intriguing blend of traditional and original songs14,15 and tunes.

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4 5 (20.45) £7.00 (£5.00) (20 Miles East of Edinburgh on A1) ■ HARP: SI LEASharp Maryduo.Macmaster Patsy Seddon.A 'A reviving,andharmonious delight'rareTheappearance Scotsman. by TICKET HOTLINE : 0131 225 7888 Scotland' Aug 6,7 s 19.dynamic 45 (20.45) £7.00 (£5.00) ■ HARP: WENDY ANDconcertina, THE LOST BOYS Chamber Folk' of the highest order on harp, pipes, Aug 12,13 19.4small 5 (20.45) £7.00 (£5.00) guitar and whistles.

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THE FAMOUS GROUSE HOUSE continued ■andTIM O'Lwith EARY Irish Fiddler goes his own way in a concert of tunes songs piano,Thecello percussion.

Aug 18 21.45 (23.30) £7.50and(£5.50) ■ IVAN DREVER Now as aperforms solo performer, the Orcadian guitarist, vocalist and ofWolfstone Augsongwriter 14 22.30 (23.30) £6.00 (£4.00) hallmark songs and compositions.

■ IVAN DREVER AND DUNCANas CHISHOLM A magical union of the Wolfstone Aug 24 19.musicians.

15 (21.05) Now £7.50re-united (£5.50) a duo they recapture the magic.

■powerful PENNYinterpreter LANG A radiant personality and an honest, courageous and folk, blues, Aug IS 21.45 (23.30)of£7.50 (£5.50)country and gospel.

■ LLANmixDEofCUBEL WickeddanceSpanish for Celtic-based tunesband and from songs.Asturias. Deservedly popular Augtheir 23 19.00 (20.50) £7.50 (£5.50) ■bucketfulls TABACHE The Edinburgh 6 pieceis play confidence and of ability. aves of(£5.50) Rush' theirwith newenthusiasm, acclaimed album.

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BURACH is onedown. of the best high-energy folk bands to come out of Scotland Aug 28 No 21.45sitting (23.30) £7.50 (£5.50) ■ THE MCALMANS folk songEvening at its best. sell-outs last year19.-15'a(21.05) mustScottish see'£7.50Edinburgh News.New album... great crits...

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■SideRANTERS, LOVERS AND CHANTERS Thebest SongofFactory,The Francis'£7.00 Pipe(£5.00) Band perform the Burns. South Aug Chorus 24-29 18.and15St.(19.15) ■ spirited OLD BLIND DOGS 'One of Scotland' s hottest young folk properties' SoS. AAug fiddler and an awesome 6 19.15(21.05) £7.50 (£5.50) battery of percussion.

■ THE BARRAcontemporary MCNEILS tunes Superb Celtic-folk from Cape Breton.

Traditional Aug 9 21.15and(23.05) £7.50 (£5.50) mix with superlative musicianship.

■RickBAG O'CATS Dick Leesoundscapes - Fraser Fifield Rick Standley - Nigel Richard Bamford - fascinating with- exotic instruments. www.octmusic.demon.co.uk/bagocats Aug 23 21.30 (23.20) £7.50 (£5.50) ■it hasDICK GAUGHAN sings about A true£7.50 vocal hero. life and its injustices and the effect Aug 20on 19.people.

15 (21.05) (£5.50) ★ LIZ LOCHHEAD MICHEAL MARRAperformers.

- IN FLAGRANT DELICT Lyric-fest featuring two &ofand Scotland's favourite Marra masterful and muscianly Aug 19,20 21.45songsmith (23.30) £7.50Lochhead (£5.50) poet and playwright extraordinaire.

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FRANTIC REDHEAD PRODUCTIONS ®0©©0 Venue 55 - Randolph Studio, Inst Francais d'Ecosse, 13 Randolph Cres. Tickets 225 5366 H8 ■ ROCKYJAZZ WINSLOW AND THE UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LASlike Tony BOOTHBY VEGAS QUINTET Rocky (who performs with top entertainers Bennett, Johnny Mathis, NatalieParker, Cole) and UNLVs outstanding student musicians play main jazz (Charlie compositions.

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(22.55) | SELl-OUT SHOWS’94,'95,’97&’98] Aug Aug 1415 21.40 15.15(16.25) Suitable for ages 10+ ■Devlin-Thorp JAZZED UP(piano) ANDperform WINDING DOWNfrom LouisetheHolden (vocals) and Jeremy jazz standards 30' s to the present day, plus some material.£6.00 Hurry(£5.00) - limited seating.

Aug 25-29original 21.00 (22.50) Suitable for ages 12+ GAELIC Venue 90 - GraffiGRAFFITI ti, Corner Broughton and East London Streets Tickets 557 8330 OO©©© G13 GAELIC GRAFFITI The GaelicandArts AgencyGaelic - Proiseact Nan Ealanhighlights - presentthe anquality exciting programme of new traditional music which andthediversity of the contemporary strand for International Fringe. Scottish music scene. A major new ■a wild TARTAN AMOEBAS & FRIENDS Edinburgh' own success story provide dancing £with high octane Celticsdelirium!

Aug 13night22.40of (02.00) 10.00their (£8.00) ■ ALY BAIN, PHILof CUNNINGHAM & CARAIDEAN A rare Fringe appearance for one Scotland's most popular musical partnerships.

Aug Aug 2019 21.00 22.40 (22.10) (02.00) ££ 10.12.0000 (£8.00) (£ 10.00) ■brings GAELIC WOMEN by the new GreenTrax album, this concert many of£ Inspired Aug 21together 19.20 (20.30) 10.Gaeldonrs 00 (£8.00)finest female singers.

■is explored CEOL CHALUMCHILLE and Columba Ireland's common Gaelic heritage song (£8.00) inScotland this magical Initiative concert.

Aug 22 19.20in music (20.30)and£10.00 ■ NAmusic H-EILTHIRICH:THE EMIGRANTS SONG features Margaret Stewart with the BBC£ 10.TV00 series Aug 23 19.from 30 (20.30) (£8.00)on Scottish emigration.

■MacFarlane, BLAZIN'Chisholm, FIDDLESO'RFiddle courtesywithof Thorburn MacGregor,andMacdonald, ourkevirtuosity and Henderson Clement onAugaccompaniment.

27 22.40 (02.00) £ 10.00 (£8.00) ■blend CEOLAS Designed to propel Gaelicvocals musicandintodance. the millennium, a thrilling of pipes, guitar, fiddle, bouzouki, Aug 19.20 (20.30) Aug 2930 22.40 (02.00) £ 10.00 (£8.00) ■ ALYTH MCCORMACK One the new will debutof solo album.wave of Gaelic singers, Alyth Augperform 13 21.00material (22.00) from £8.00her(£6.00) ■successful TANNAS A newexports. line-upDon' andt amiss! new sound for one of Scotland's most "Lowest common denominator humour’’ Aug 20 19.musical 30 (20.30) £8.00 (£6.00) The List ■pianoBACHUE An'Cool exciting musicalcold'combination of jazz and folk featuring harp, "Mediocre material” but£8.00never Aug 27& vocals.

19.30 (20.30) (£6.00) The Scotsman.

The List ■newBIGbandSKYline-up Capercaillieguestfiddler, Charlie McKerron, showcases his exciting "Sketches that wouldn’t look out of place at the Aug 29 midnight with (02.00) £8.00vocalist (£6.00)Sandra Mackay. arse-end of a Channel 5 schedule on a weak night” Venue 131 - Greyfriars Kirk,Greyfriars Place, Candlemaker Row Tickets 557 8330 Kl I The List ■hasMAGGIE MACINNES Highly acclaimed albumforontheDunkeld records ensured recent sell-out concerts.

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Aug 14 19.30 (20.40) £8.00 (£6.00) "Interminable" The List ■INGRID ANNEHENDERSON MARTIN,ANNA MURRAY,ALYTH AND Asong. passionate, sensuous andMACCORMACK moving evening of Gaelic music and "A quality act that is, as every year before, Aug 15 19.30 (20.40) £8.00 (£6.00) highly heartily recommended” ■ song TUATH Critically acclaimed choralThorburn work forandtwelve unaccompanied AAug of Scotland Andy Aonghas MacNeacail. voices: The List 17 portrait 21.10 (22.20) £8.00 by(£6.00) ■ ISHBEL MACASKILL & FRIENDS Undoubtedly one of Scotland's finest vocal August 14th - 30th at 8.00pm Aug 25talents, 16.15Ishbel (17,15)returns £8.00after (£6.00)five star reviews in 1997/1998.

(Except 24th) ■ CEOLGaelic CHALUMCHILLE WITHAngel FLORA of the Scottish and tradition£8.00with(£6.00) Herald awardMACNEIL winner FloraBestMacNeil.

Pleasance Box Office: 0131 556 6550 AugIrish 26 16.15(17.15) ■ GAEL POWERandFlora MacNeil and Ishbel MacAskill host an afternoon special guests.

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Music f GRAFFITI 0O©©0 Tejmcgn^fS Venue 90 - Graffiti,Corner Broughton & East London Streets Tix 557 8330 GI3 EAST WINDS After the phenomenal success of last year' s programme we present exciting pot pourri music ofanother the highest quality.international Drop everything!

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Aug 14,15 21.00 17.30 (18.40) £10.00 (£8.00) Aug 21-23 (22.10) Aug (20.30) Aug 24-26 27-30 12.19.0200 (13.10) (see also Graffiti Greyfriars Kirk shows) ■by HUUN HUURTU:THROAT SINGERS OF TUVA Took Festival '98 Wonderful, strange, evocative, bewitching, beautiful....

'Aug awestorm. inspiring' Scotsman.

22.40 (22.10) (23.45) £ 10.00 (£8.00)(see also Graffiti Greyfriars Kirk shows) Aug 24-26,29 27,28,30 21.00 ★MY■ SADNESS' HUUN HUURTU, ANGELITE, DUO: FLY, FLY performances of a MOSCOW five yearanything worldARTadventure.

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(22.10) £15.00 (£12.00)(see also Graffiti Greyfriars Kirk shows) Aug 24-26,29 27,28,30 21.00 19.20 (20.30) ■Crimean EURASIAN GUITARS:TWO Solo electric guitarist, Tartar,guitar EnverandIzmailov createsVIRTUOSOS incredibledelivery, musical universe.

Ivan passion Smirnov Trio acoustic accompanists: powerful total mastery, and poetry.

Both world class.

Aug 28-30 19.20 (20.30) £8.00 (£7.00) (see also Graffiti Greyfriars Kirk shows) ■Chilly PRODIGIES singers,delight, Pelageyaexhilarate, (12, Siberia) (18, Ukraine)Twowith19.astonishing their band,solo£8.00 astonish, amaze!and Katya Aug 10,11,15,17-20 2 0 (20.30) (£7.00) Aug 1213,1417.314.0 (18.40) £8.00£6.00(£7.00) Aug (£5.00) Aug 29,30 15.0300 (15.00) (16.30) £6.00 (£5.00) (see also Graffiti Greyfriars Kirk shows) ■jazz/folk/rock FARLANDERS (RUSSIA) Highly original, driving fiveUnbelievable! piece fusion band fronted by charismatic singerbrilliant, Inna Zhelannaya.

Aug 6,7,10-16,21 -30 22.30 (23.40) £7.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 10+ ■ MISHA ALPERIN: SOLO PIANOperforms Memberrich,of world famous Moscow Art Trio; composer musical polymath, deep, delicious evocations.

Aug 25,26 15.12.30and Aug 27,28 00 (13.00) (16.30) £7.00 (£5.00) (see also Graffiti Greyfriars Kirk shows) ■delirious, LOYKO:THE RUSSIAN BANDvirtuosity.

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'Sizzling,GYPSY incandescent Standfestival back favourites; while the sparks fly' Scotsman.

Aug 12,14 19.

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0 0 (£8.00) Aug 15-18 21.0017.(22.10) Aug 13,29,30 30 (18.40) (see also Graffiti Greyfriars Kirk and Spiegeltent shows) ■hugeMUSAFIR: GYPSIESmoustaches...!

OF RAJASTHAN Music,delight. song, For danceeveryone. and circus, turbans, enormous Aug 7,14 10-1422.40 21.00(midnight) (22.10) £10.00 (£8.00)An absolute Aug (see also Graffiti Spiegeltent shows) ■Gypsy KALMAN BALOGH: ROMANO 9 piecemusicHungarian Cymbalom bandjazz...playing wide rangeKOKALO of wonderful traditional, flamenco, perfect!

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2 0 (20.30) £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 20 21.00 (22.00) £10.00 Aug Aug 2122,2322.4022.40(23.50) (23.50) £8.00 (£7.00) (see also Graffiti Spiegeltent shows) Venue 131 - Greyfriars Kirk, Greyfriars Place, Candlemaker Row Tickets 557 8330 Kl I ■AugTHE ANGELITE see above 6-13BULGARIAN 19.30 (20.40) VOICES: £10.00 (£8.00) ■AugHUUN HUURTU:THROATS 6-10,13-16 22.45 (midnight) £ 10.SINGERS 00 (£8.00) OF TUVA see above ■SADNESS' HUUN HUURTU.ANGELITE, see above £ 12.00 (£ 10.00)MOSCOW ART DUO: FLY, FLY MY Aug Aug 6-10 13-16 21.10 21.10(22.20) (22.30) £15.00 (£12.00) ■ EURASIAN see above Aug 6-10,12-27 GUITARS:TWO 17.45 (19.00) £8.00VIRTUOSOS (£7.00) ■AugPRODIGIES see above 22-27 21.10 (22.20) £8.00 (£7.00) ■AugMISHA ALPERIN: SOLO PIANO above 6-9,13-17,22-24 15 (17.15) £7.00see(£5.00) Aug 11,12,18-21 21.1016.(22.20) B LOYKO:THE RUSSIAN£ 10.GYPSY Aug 19-27 22.45 (midnight) 00 (£8.00)BAND see above 56

Venue 87 - Beck's Famous Spiegeltent, beside Scott Monument, Princes St Tix S58 8010 B LOYKO:THE RUSSIAN GYPSY BAND see above Aug 11 19.30 (20.40) £10.00 (£8.00) III BAugMUSAFIR: GYPSIES OF RAJASTHAN see above 9 19.30 (20.40) £ 10.00 (£8.00) flAugKALMAN BALOGH: 18 23.00 (00.10) £10.00ROMANO (£8.00) KOKALO see above Venue 90 - Graffiti, Corner Broughton and East London Streets Tickets 557 8330 G13 j! j BwithGRAND GRAFFITI EXTRAVAGANZAS Legendary Grand Cabaret shows of the festival Aug pick 7,14,21,28 22.40 exotica (03.00) and £10.00wild bands for dancing. Dream evenings! flcomposer MOUSSA KOUYATE: MASTER PLAYER maker, j and performer of traditional KORA and original music Renowned on the beautiful melodic7,8,10-15 African harp.

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2 0 (20.30) £ 10.00 (£8.00) Aug 14 midnight (02.00) £10.00 (see also Graffiti Spiegeltent shows) i B BLACK UMFOLOSI (ZIMBABWE) Immensely popularentertaining a-capella 1 i and dance group close, rich, deep, township singing, ’...hugely Glasgow Herald. (see also Graffiti Greyfriars Kirk & Spiegeltent shows) ; Aug 20-26 15.30 (16.30) £7.00 (£6.00) Venue 131 - Greyfriars Kirk,Greyfriars Place,Candlemaker Row Tickets 557 8330 Kl I B MOUSSA MASTER Aug 16-19 19.KOUYATE: 30 (20.40) £6.00 (£5.00) KORA PLAYER see above BAugBLACK (ZIMBABWE) 20-26 UMFOLOSI 19.30 (20.40) £8.00 (£7.00) see above Venue 87 - Beck's Famous Spiegeltent, beside Scott Monument, Princes St Tix 558 8010 III B VOCAL SAMPLING: CUBA see above Aug Aug 1413 23.00 19.30 (00.10) (20.40) £10.00 (£8.00) III B BLACK see above Aug 27,28 UMFOLOSI 14.00 (15.10) £8.00 (£7.00) Venue 90 - Graffiti,Corner Broughton and East London Streets Tickets 557 8330 GI3 Bblending RECOGNITION Three nights of female representation with an edge, music with poetry, Aug 12,19,26 midnight (03.00)vocalists, £6.00 dancers (£5.00) and more. An exotic event!

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B LIZZARD LOUNGEwithEdinburgh' s top weekly live music club - salsa, jazz, rap combined resident Aug funk, 7,14,21,28 midnight (03.00) £7.00and guest DJs. Wild nights!

B MYSTERY JUICEaudiences An explosive mixture of- blues, high wire internationally stylishhip-hop act. Don'andt miss.

Aug fiddling.Thrilling 30 midnight (03.00) £7.00 (£5.00) B Dave CHETMilligan BAKER TRIBUTE Trumpeter Colintribute Steele,tovocalist Cathy Rae &Aug (piano) Ronnie (bass)(£5.00) pay jazz legend.

20) 21.00 (22.00)Rae £7.00 Aug 2014-2922.30(not(23.30) BLorna THEBrooks, WOMEN'SCampbell, ROOM Acoustic music-mix by leading Scottish exponents Aug 18 midnightMairi(03.00) £7.50Elspeth (£5.50) Cowie, Lorraine Jordan, Christine Kydd.

BandWILL GAINES:TALLTALES, HOT SHOES Jazz tap dance legend raconteur returns band£7.00 to regale, Aug 12-14,18-20 17.45with(18.45) (£5.00)twinkle and delight.

Aug 15-17 19.20 (20.30) BParisian ORIENT EXPRESS MOVINGto SHNORERS dynamic band(02.00) guaranteed break your heartHotand8 piece raise the roof!

Aug 22-25klezmer midnight £7.00 (£5.00) GREYFRIARS 00©@0 Venue 131 - Greyfriars KiKIRK rk, GreyfriarsPROMOTIONS Place, Candlemaker Row K11 BKirk,ORGAN RECITAL SERIES Andrew Armstrong, Organist at Greyfriars will play the entire organ works of Dietrich Buxtehude over nine lunchtime recitals the 1990 acoustic Peter Collins Savour atmosphere in theonmagnificent of thisorgan. historic kirk.the music and Aug 9,11,13,16,18,20,23,25,27 13.10 (14.00) £5.00 (£4.00) Help and Information Ring the Fringe on 0131 226 5257 Open 10am - 6pm June 8. July 10am - 7pm during August

HARPSICHORDS AT ST CECILIA S HALL 00©©0 Venue 31 - St Cecilia's Hall, cnr Niddry Street & Cowgate K13 HARPSICHORDS AT mornings ST CECILIA S toHALL Antique keyboardto hear instrument collection open weekday (10.30 12.30), and a chance some the instruments in a series of afternoon recitals in Scotland's oldest concert hall.of ■Michael MUSIC OF CI8TH GERMANY ENGLAND Bruges prize-winner, Handel andAND the Bach family (Falkener 1773).

Aug 12 Sponseller, 15.00 (16.30)music£6.00by (£4.00) ■by FANTASIAS, FUGUES AND FIORATURE...

John Kitchen plays Handel on the cl765Thomas Parker organ.music AugGibbons, 14 15.0Purcell, 0 (16.30)Bach£6.00and(£4.00) ■Case-Stott BAROQUE FORandHARPSICHORD Angeline plays MASTERWORKS Bach, Couperin, Rameau Scarlatti on the 1755 Kirckman Aug 17 15.harpsichord.

00 (16.30) £6.00 (£4.00) ■German, EUROPEAN SPECTRUM English,harpsichordist French, Spanish, Italian (Falkener andBAROQUE Portuguese music performedScottish,

by Canadian Grace Cuzzani 1773).

Aug 19 15.00 (16.30) £6.00 (£4.00) ■by BACH' S WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER The complete Book I played Lucy21 Carolan on the£6.00 1764(£4.00) Hass harpsichord.

Aug 15.00 (17.00) ■ THE DRESDEN CONNECTION Arborea Musica/lain Simcock: virtuoso woodwind music

by Bach,Vivaldi,Telemann and resident composers 1793 harpsichord).

Aug 24 15.(Broadwood 00 (16.30) £6.00 (£4.00) ■moreTHEas before DRESDEN 2 Arboreagroup' Musica/lain Simcock: from 'CONNECTION acclaimed period-instrument Guardian (Kirckman 1755 harpsichord).

Aug 26 15.00 (16.30) £6.00 (£4.00) ■ SONGS AND(counter-tenor), KEYBOARDJohnMUSIC and Kirckman contemporaries: Sandy KitchenBlow(1769 harpsichord, c 168028Chenery chamber organ).£6.00 (£4.00) Aug 15.00 (16.30) HIGHLAND HARMONY FESTIVAL OOOOO Venue 131 - Greyfriars Kirk, Greyfriars Place, Candlemaker Row K11 ■renowned MARTINMartin HIGHHighSCHOOL CHAMBER SINGERS The nationally School Chamber Singers from Arlington,Texas, performthisa outstanding variety of AmericanofFolk Songs and Spirituals. Come hear and enjoy Aug I I 16.00 (16.45) group Free students.

Music ■of thirty GLENBROOK SOUTH SCHOOL MASTER SINGERS auditioned juniors andHIGH seniors.

The choir prides itself in its styles senseconsist of ensemble, its passion for singing, and its ability to perform different and genres Aug I Iwith15.0integrity.

0 (15.45) Free ■performing TRUMANsacred HIGH CONCERT CHOIR Members will be and SCHOOL secular selections ranging from Renaissance, polyphony, Hebrew Hymn, folksings, popular American standards.Titles include: Adon Akakomborwerwa, Adiemus, Dixit Dominus, P=E51's Fugue, Shenandoah andOlam, Paddlin' Madelin' Home.

Aug 11 17.00 (17.45) Free HURTLE PARROTT FESTIVALS 0OOOO Venue 180 - Summer Nights @ Lennoxlove, Lennoxlove House, Haddington Tix 225 7888 K22 outer ■headlines JAMEStheTAYLOR, SUMMER NIGHTS '9from 9 Legendary firstSoak summer with support EricofBibbthissinger/songwriter & Tam White's Shoestring Band. uptothenight atmosphere on feast the lawns Fabulous food and drink complement this of great music.stately home.

Aug 7 16.00 (23.00) £30.00 JAPAN EXPERIENCE 00060 Venue 81 - The Garage Theatre, Grindlay Court Centre, Grindlay Street Tickets 221 9009 K9 ■zither.

CHIKUZAN Thethevirtuoso master tsugara shamisen - theenergy.

3-stringed She stunned audience with ears herof the technique Her haunting voice will linger in your even afterandhercontrolled climactic performance.

One of a kind, even in Japan.

Aug 15-30 21.00 (22.00) £6.00 (£5.00) ■hypnotic MUGENKYO -TAIKOmovement, DRUM PERFORMANCE Powerful fusiondrums. of rhythms, dynamic and rawtheenergy of the Japanese Visually breathtaking excitement that makes heart pound.

Language symbolising the 'Dazzling Augheartbeat 8-30 16.of15 mankind.

(17.15) £8.00 (£7.00)display (£6.00of artC) from the heart' Independent.

■AnTAIKO (JAPANESE DRUM) WORKSHOP WITH insight into thearefascinating and rarelydrums accessible world ofMUGENKYO Japanese drumming.

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Aug 8-30 13.00 (14.00) £6.00 (£4.00)

SALSA THURSDAYS THE QUEEN’S HALL 12th AUGUST Vercaf A cappella Salsa Sensation from Cuba + Carfusr pe'za 19th AUGUST 2nd Album Launch 26th AUGUST Top Cuban Dance Group Groupo Folclorico Cutumba All Nights feature DJs from Club Latino I I pm - 3am • £8 (£6) * Box Office 0I3| 668 2019 ^ NO 7? ^Queens — h,\1.1. ^ VENUE

An hour of romantic, sarcastic, funny, sad and poetic songs from this highly acclaimed songwriter.

• "Songs delivered with frightening intensity andOneaansometimes often gleeful amount of bile. of the less •sort“Philip Jeays is a real find.

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A fresh, unpredictable and young songwriter andscary... performer uplifting and quirky brew.” THE STAGE whose singer, artisticvitriolic, potentialandiscruelly finest new vulnerable, for• “The 10 years.”

TOMsongwriter ROBINSONI've heard observant.” THE HERALD CAFE ROYAL 17 WEST REGISTER ST Venue 47 Friday 6th Aug - Sunday 29th August at 9.45pm (not 10th, 16th, 17th or 24th - FREE PreviewThbrs 5th Aug) Box Office: 0131-556 2549 ONLY £5,00 AIR CONDITIONED VENUE www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/~scs1ec/jeays.html

Music PHILIP JEAYS ®0©©0 Venue 47 - The Cafe Royal, 17 West Register Street Tickets 556 2549 112 PHILIP JEAYS HERE I AM Highly acclaimed singer songwriter returns to Edinburgh.

If youdo likehimsongs with please passion,seehumour and fordepthquotes this isandyourdescription. man. Forty words cannot his advert Preview 21.45justice (22.45)so21.45 Free (22.45) Aug 6-29Aug (not5 10,16,17,24) £5.00 BARB JUNGR OO©©© Venue 82 - Komedia @ Southside, 117 Nicolson Street Tickets 667 2212 M12 ■ BAREthrough Daring,some passionate, wild, irresistible, Barbchansons Jungr makes a personal journey of the most bitter-sweet you will ever hear.

The passion behinddoJungr' s performance takes her show onto another plane... she can, it seems, anything' Scotsman.

Aug (23.10)£8.50£7.00 (£5.00) Aug 10-12,15-19,22-26,29 13,14,20,21,27,28 22.1022.10 (23.10) (£6.00) JUST SINGIN' ROUND OOO©© Venue 28 - Greyfriars Kirk House, Candlemaker Row Tickets 225 3626 K11 ■appearance JUST SINGIN' ROUND Unique Canadian Production making its firstwith at the Fringe.This critically acclaimed show combines music humour inspire and celebrate the art of life and songwriting. Half of all ticket sales 24-30 aretobeing Edinburgh Aug 21.00donated (22.10)to£5.00 (£4.00)Fringe.

KENNYYOUNG&THE EGGPLANTS OOO©© Venue 123 - Rocket Venue @ South Bridge Resource Ctr, Infirmary Street Tickets 558 9991 K13 ■theirKENNYYOUNG & THE EGGPLANTS Lauded by The Scotsman for the music ('Aa wonderful weird, very funnyculture' band') )and theirsurreal badgespop'('reveals wearer to be true connoisseur of Fringe . ' T ruly Li st. like Lou Reed22.45on(23.45) Lithium!'£6.00 Tom(£4.00) Robinson.

Aug 23-30 DOUGIE MACLEAN 000©0 Venue 72 - The Queen's Hall, Clerk Street Tickets 668 2019/cc 667 7776 N13 ■internationally DOUGIE MACLEAN IN CONCERT Scotland' s finest singer-songwriter, his songand'C'Saledonia' for 'Tinhea Last of the Mohicans' and renowned BBC's 'MWall ug'fors Game' ongroads', music performs favourite venue.

'A musical Aug 25,26 19.30 hero' (21.30) £ 11.St.5Journal.

0 (£ 10.00) THE MAMBO CLUB OO©©© Venue 75 - The Mambo Club, 3,WestTollcross Info 229 0469/229 3047 L8 ■equals THEgood MAMBO CLUBandGood DJs good music, goodof venue, good Calypso; price times.

Come unwind to the rhythms Latin; Salsa; Reggae;5-7,12-14,19-21,26-28,Sept African soul; R&B & hip-hop.This club where the action is!

Aug 2-4 22.00is the(04.00) £5.00 (£4.00) BRUCE MATHISKE - GUITAR SENSATION OO©©© Venue 34 - The Famous Grouse House, 5 Chambers Street Tickets 220 5606 KI2 ■andBRUCE MATHISKE - GUITARdelivering SENSATION He swings,at the drives,highest rocks dazzles through his performance entertainment level. Capturings hundreds in concert halls through to thousands at open air festivals, stunning show Aug 16-29Bruce'18.15(19.15) £6.00 leaves (£4.00)no dynamic or emotion untouched.

THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF YOUTH ORCHESTRAS oo©©o Venue 100 - Central Hall,WestTollcross Tickets 221 1927 20TH FESTIVAL OF BRITISH YOUTH ORCHESTRAS Top youth orchestras play classical/contemporary, students, disabled, unemployed free. baroque/band music. Children, ■Conductor: HERTFORDSHIRE COUNTY YOUTHFine.

ORCHESTRA PeterLesStark.Offrandes Toccata Concertante: Symphony No 5; Mahler.

LaAugMer:16 Debussy.

Oubliees: Messiaen.

19.30 (21.30) £7.00 (£3.50 OAP) (Free SUDC) ■SYMPHONIC LEICESTERSHIRE LEICESTER ARTS IN EDUCATION WIND &BAND Conductor: Andrew Bound. Holst,Jacob.

Ives, Gershwin, Aug 17 12.Bourgeois, 30 (13.30)Woolfenden, £4.00 (£2.00Johnson,Tippett, OAP) (Free SUDC)Khachaturian, Suitable for ages 7+ ■Robinson.

MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY WINDwithORCHESTRA Conductor: Phil DistantMacMillan, Variations: Casken.

Sailing Archangels: Poole.

Sowetan Spring: Hess, Maw, Ellerby.

Aug 17 19.30 (21.30) £7.00 (£3.50 OAP) (Free SUDC) 58

■Conductor: WARWICKSHIRE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA ENSEMBLES Rayof theHutchinson.

A lively programme of chamber music performed byAugmembers orchestra.

18 12.30 (13.30) £4.00 (£2.00 OAP) (Free SUDC) Suitable for ages 7+ ■Hutchinson.

WARWICKSHIRE YOUTH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conductor: Baroque and contemporary concerti for strings and wind Ray instruments.

Leigh, (£3.50 Bach,Vivaldi, Meechan Aug 18 19.30Telemann, (21.30) £7.00 OAP) (Free SUDC)(1st performance).

■Medieval DURHAM EARLY MUSIC played CONSORT Director: Peterinstruments.

Wilkie. replicas Aug 19 12.and30Renaissance (13.30) £4.00music (£2.00 OAP)on(Free SUDC)of original Suitable for ages 7+ ■ConductonTony DURHAM COUNTY YOUTH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Oliver.

Farnham Festival Overture: R R Bennett.

Swinging (I st performance): Dike. (Free Faure.SUDC) Haydn.

Aug 19 Strings 19.30 (21.30) £7.00 (£3.50 OAP) ■ENSEMBLES YORKSHIREAYOUTH ORCHESTRA BRASS & PERCUSSION programme of(percussion). great livelinessPlusandnewvariety, directedStandford.

by Ian Davies (brass) and Christopher Bradley Aug 20 12.30 (13.30) £4.00 (£2.00 OAP) (Free SUDC)commission: Suitable for ages 7+ ■Festival YORKSHIRE YOUTH ORCHESTRA Conductor: John-Pryce Overture: Shostakovich.

Melody: Koehne.

ClarinetJones.

Concerto No 2:20Weber. piece:Unchained Standford.

Aug 19.30Commissioned (21.30) £7.00 (£3.50 OAP) (Free SUDC) ■including ANGLIA BRASSMedley: Director:Bissell.Variations/Annie George Reynolds. An American/Scottish arr. Prior.for theme Aug 21 12.Gershwin 30 (13.30) £4.00arr.(£2.00 OAP) (Free SUDC) Laurie:Suitable ages 7+ BSmith.

BEDFORDSHIRE COUNTY YOUTH II ORCHESTRA Conductor: Ian Bernstein, Gershwin, Saxophone Concerto: Binge.

Suite: Rose.

Abigail Aug 21at 19.San30Marco: (21.30) Goldman. £7.00 (£3.50 OAP) (Free SUDC) Venue 187 - St Giles'Cathedral, High Street, Royal Mile JI2 ■Ingram.

SOUTHAMPTON UNIVERSITY SINFONIETTA Conductor:NoPaul2 Overture La Clemenza diTito: Mozart.

Chamber Symphony premiere: Field. Symphony Aug 22 18.00(19.00) FreeNo 35: Mozart.

Suitable for ages 7+ Venue 100 - Central Hall,West Tollcross Tickets 221 1927 L8 ■Concerto: GLASGOW SCHOOLS STRING ORCHESTRA Double BassGrosso: Dittersdorf.

Divertimento for Strings: Maguire.

Concerto Vaughan Aug 23 Williams.

12.30 (13.30) £4.00 (£2.00 OAP) (Free SUDC) Suitable for ages 7+ ■Durrant.

RSAMDOverture JUNIOR ACADEMY ORCHESTRA Conductor:Elgar.

James Prince Igor: Borodin.

Introduction/Allegro: Sleeping Beauty:Tchaikovsky.

Sinfonietta No 2: Arnold.

Les Preludes: Liszt.

Aug 23 19.30 (21.30) £7.00 (£3.50 OAP) (Free SUDC) ■Gayford.

CITY Octandre:Varese.

OF SHEFFIELDSymphony YOUTH NoORCHESTRA Conductor: Chris 5: Mahler.

Aug 24 19.30 (21.30) £7.00 (£3.50 OAP) (Free SUDC) ■ORCHESTRA EAST DUNBARTONSHIRE SECONDARY Conductor: George Kelly.

Romeo andSCHOOLS JulietTchaikovsky.

Waltz - Masquerade: Symphonic West Side Story: Bernstein.

Aug 25 12.30 Khatchaturian.

(13.30) £4.00 (£2.00 OAP) Dances, (Free SUDC) Suitable for ages 7+ ■Mendelssohn, YOUNG SINFONIA (NEWCASTLE) Baldur forBronnimann.

Falla.

Symphony No 2: Schulhoff.Conductor: New commission trumpet and Matthew Roddie.

Augorchestra: 25 19,30 (21.30) £7,00 (£3.50 OAP) (Free SUDC) ■Callaghan.

EDINBURGH WIND ENSEMBLE Stephen EmerataTheSCHOOLS Overture: Smith.

Incantation & Dance:Conductor: Barnes Chance.

3rd Suite: Jaeger.

Sword and Crown: Gregson.

Aug 26 12.30 (13.30) £4.00 (£2.00 OAP) (Free SUDC) Suitable for ages 7+ ■Maynes.

DUNDEE SCHOOLS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conductor: Charles Overture Magic Flute: Mozart.

Symphony No 2 & Romance: Beethoven.

Spectrum: Aug 26 19.Finlandia: 30 (21.30)Sibelius. £7.00 (£3.50 OAP)Lees.

(FreeRodeo: SUDC)Copland.

■Conductor: LLIRIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA,VALENCIA, EnriqueI &Artiga Frances. Sinfonia para GranSPAIN Orquesta: Arriaga.

Peer 27Gynt19,Suites 2:£7,00 Grieg.

Aug 30 (21.30) (£3.50 OAP) (Free SUDC) ■Swing, EDINBURGH SCHOOLS JAZZ ORCHESTRA Directonjim O’Malley.

Jazz/Rock Aug 28Latin12.3and 0 (13.30) £4.00- this (£2,00bandOAP)really(Freeswings.

SUDC) Suitable for ages 7+ ■ORCHESTRA CITY OF CARDIFF ANDEricVALE OFJavelin:Torke.

GLAMORGAN YOUTH Conductor: Phillips.

Flute Concerto: Reinecke.

Hoddinott.

Symphony Aug 28 19.Celebration 30 (21.30) Dances: £7.00 (£3.50 OAP) (Free SUDC)No 2: Rachmaninov.

Venue 187 - St Giles' Cathedral, High Street, Royal Mile jTl ■Conductor: SCOTTISH BORDERS WIND & CHAMBER ORCHESTRAS Kevin Price.

Carnaby Street: Hart.

Simple Symphony: Britten.

Cello Concerto: Aug 29 18.Boccherini.

00 (19.00) Moorside Free Suite:Wright.That's Entertainment: SuitableBarker. for ages 7+

Music Venue 100 - Central Hall,WestTollcross Tickets 221 1927 L8 ■NigelWEST OF Gallimaufry: SCOTLAND SCHOOLS CONCERT BANDBinge, Conductor: Boddice.

Woolfenden.

Freedom Sword: Fraser.

Graham, Thorpe-Davie, Bennett,£4.00 Gregson.

Aug 30 12.30 (13.30) (£2.00 OAP) (Free SUDC) Suitable for ages 7+ ■ WESTConway.

OF SCOTLAND SCHOOLS ORCHESTRA Conductor: William Sheherezade: Rimsky-Korsakov.

Unity and Conflict: Ronald Walker.

Kid: Copland.

Aug 30 Billy 19.3the 0 (21.30) £7.00 (£3.50 OAP) (Free SUDC) ■Person' FIFEsYOUTH RichardRichard Michael.Young Guide to JAZZ the JazzORCHESTRA Orchestra (newDirector: commission): Michael, with audience participation.

Aug 31 12.30 (13.30) £4.00 (£2.00 OAP) (Free SUDC) Suitable for ages 7+ 9PM - SAM EVERY NIGHT OF THE FESTIVAL ■Susan THEDingle.

KELVIN ENSEMBLE (GLASGOW UNIVERSITY) Conductor: Coriolan Overture: Beethoven.

Romance: Dvorak. Serenade in G: Holloway.

2 Suites for Small Orchestra: Stravinsky.

Aug 31 19.30 (21.30) £7.00 (£3.50 OAP) (Free SUDC) 6.AUG CREAM > JOHN PLEASED WIMMIN ■Five:PERTH YOUTH ORCHESTRA ENSEMBLES Percussion, RondoMusic for & LES RYDER del Borgo.

Woodwind Octet: de Haan.

String Quartet in C: Mozart. for Brass Ensemble.

7JUIG BUGGED OUT Sept I 12.30 (13.30) £4.00 (£2.00 OAP) (Free SUDC) Suitable for ages 7+ CLARKE &> 'DAVE BUGGED OUT' RESIDENT ■Saint-Saens, PERTH YOUTH ORCHESTRA Conductor: DforEoinFluteBennet.Verdi, 8.

AUG MARSHALL JEFFERSON Holst, Britten, Tchaikovsky.

Concertino and Orchestra: & FARLEY JACKMASTER FUNK Chaminade.

9. > EDINBURGH AUG Sept I 19.30Finlandia: (21.30) Sibelius. £7.00 (£3.50 OAP) (Free SUDC) RESIDENT DJ’S RESIDENTS NIGHT ■ENSEMBLE FIFEYOUTH STRINGKenneth ORCHESTRA AND PERCUSSION 10.

AUG RESIDENTS NIGHT Conductors: Clarke, Rebecca Paterson.Vivaldi, Hamilton 11. and Mozart.

Faini and Lipner.

12J1UG GOLDEN AUG RESIDENTS NIGHT Sept 2 12.30 (13.30) £4.00 (£2.00 OAP) (Free SUDC) Suitable for ages 7+ > SONIQUE & DEAN WILSON 13.

AUG UBERDISKO RECORDS ■Episodes FIFEYOUTH ORCHESTRA Conductor: GraemeRomeo Wilson.& Juliet: Karelia: Sibelius. > DAVE SEAMAN, MICHAEL (Percussion Ensemble/Orchestra): Hamilton. fEVENDALE JUNGLE MAGIC/Tchaikovsky. Symphonic Metamorphosen: Hindemith. Matinees Musicales: Britten.

14. KILKIE & COLIN AUG Sept 2 19.

3 0 (21.30) £7.00 (£3.50 OAP) (Free SUDC) DIFFERENT CLASS DJ'S ■Primary FIFE TRADITIONAL MUSICDancers, AND DANCESingers Fife YoungSoloists.

Fiddlers. Fife & FABIO COLOURS Scottish£4.00Country 15. > GROOVERIDER AUG Sept 3 School 12.30 (13.30) (£2.00 OAP) (FreePipers, SUDC) and Suitable for ages 7+ > PETE HELLER & GUEST T.B.C. 1B.AUG RESIDENT NIGHT ■ EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conductor: 17. AUG RESIDENT NIGHT James Lowe.

Symphony No I: Beethoven.

Le Tombeau de Couperin: Ravel.

18JIUG MINISTRY OF SOUND Sept 3 19.30 (21.30) £7.00 (£3.50 OAP) (Free SUDC) LOTHIAN ORCHESTRA Conductor:William Conway.

19. > T.B.C. AUG GATECRASHER ■Symphony No Satie.

6SCHOOLS - Pathetique: Tchaikovsky.

Suite No 3: Leighton.

Hungarian Dance No(Free 5:Dance Brahms.

20. > T.B.C. AUG BUGGED OUT Gymnopedies: Sept 4 19.30 (21.30) £7.00 (£3.50 OAP) SUDC) > JUSTIN ROBERTSON & ’BUGGED OUT’ RESIDENT 21JIUG CREAM NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF SCOTLAND OOO©© > K-KLASS & LES BEAT RYDERNIGHT Venue 43 - Royal Museum and Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street Tickets 2474219 KI2 22.AUG IBIZA BALEARIC ■Scotland EDINBORO' T OUN Classic folk music and imagery of 18th Century > GRIFF & JAY MANUMISSION beforeCheape Allan (Chamber Ramsay toPipes after -Robert 23JUIG NIGHT (Fiddle) ofandfrom Hugh ScottishBurns.

SmallPlayed Pipes).byIn Paul the Jordan lecture 24. RESIDENTAUG TIM LENNOX [GALAXY FM] theatre the Royal Museum. > PLUS GUEST T.B.C. 25.

AUG BACK 2 BASICSAug 14,23,25,Sept I 18.30 (19.30) £5.00 (£3.00) > RALPH LAWSON. JAMES ■ THEa VOICE OF THE Hearhighthewhen only working carnyxKennyin the & TERI^Y FRANCIS COLOURS world, CelticCARNYX war horn, played.

John performs2000-year-old musicPurser, with string quartet, voice,3mandpercussion and electronics.

By Nigel 26. HOLYROYDAUG Osborne, John Edward McGuire John Kenny. > T.B.C Aug 29 19.30 (21.30) prices from venue Suitable for ages 10+ 27.

AUG MINISTRY OF SOUND 28. > T.B.C. AUG GOLDEN NEW VOICES AT CANONGATE KIRK - EDINBURGH > MARK MOORE & DEAN WILSON INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL OOO©© Venue 60 - Canongate Kirk, Canongate, Royal Mile Tickets 226 5138 / 667 7776 J15 EVERY NIGHT in the BACKROOMS MESSE DE MINUIT Ludus Baroque presents this gem by Charpentier drum A bass JUNGLE MAGIC with Bach' s Lutheran Mass in G minor and a glittering Handel Organ Concerto. highest ALPHABEAT SOUP ByNotcandlelight in Edinburgh's beautiful Canongate Kirk, ending at midnight... funk & soul THE FUNK TRAIN BAR to25 be22.45 missed! duh/soul/reggae in the MIDDLE Aug (midnight) £6.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 12+ programme may be subject to change ADDISON SINGERSincluding David Wordsworth conducts thisHarbison, award-winning in(Scottish a lively Premieres), programme music by Vasks, Casken, Bolcom choir Aug 28 19.30 (21.30)Rutter £6.00 and (£4.00)Stravinsky.

B MINORjoins MASS Baroque, s acclaimed period chamber TEVIOT ROW HOUSE orchestra, forcesLudus once again withScotland' the singers ofS Trinity Baroque, continuing BRISTO SQUARE EDINBURGH their Festival tradition: highly charged accounts of J Bach' s magisterial setting. ticket price from £5 available from TEVIOT BOX OFFICE on night Sold out quickly last year so book now. box officesreopen from 8PMfrom until FRINGE 2AM - telephone: 0131in650 4673 Aug 2729 19.16.3000 (21.30) £7.50 (£5.00) Aug (18.00) Suitable for ages 12+ tickets also available BOX OFFICE advance for information please telephone: 0131 650 2649 [during daytime] over 18's only 59

■Straker STRAKER SINGS JACQUES BREL Brel ofis auniquely interpreted byStraker Peter who exhibits shamelessonesavoir-faire seasoned diva. Only'IfYou can brazenly yell aboutthegonorrhea minute and offer the emotive Go Away' the next.

Aug Aug 5-12 13,14 23.15 23.15(00.15) (00.15) £7.00 £8.00(£6.00) (£7.00) MARK NORTHFIELD OO0OO JONATHAN PRAG ©O©©© Venue 84 - HolyroodTavern, Holyrood Road Tickets 557 4972 KI3 Venue 47 - The Cafe Royal, 17 West Register Street Tickets 556 2549 112 ■IntoBLOND, BLUE-EYED GUY, 26 slim, sincere, songsmith. ★ CLASSICAL GUITAR FEAST Enjoyment guaranteed in a blissful mixture white/black, playing around.WLTM audience for mutual satisfaction and including Barrios, Sor, Granados, Bach and Brouwer.

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®o©©o | EARL OKIN ? Venue 143 -The Bongo Club.c : of the blue, 14 New St (off Royal Mile) Tix 556 5204 J14 ■theHOAGY, DUKE AND GEORGE The incomparable Earl Okin celebrates centenariesofofchocolate-smooth Duke Ellington, George Gershwin and instrumentals.

Hoagy Carmichael.

AnDefinitive afternoon vocals and classy jazz songs, definitely performed. ' M ulti-talented musical supremo' Time Out cup of tea for each16.audience Aug Free 7,13,14,20-22,27-29 20 (17.30)member. £6.50 (£5.00) OLD ST PAUL'S MUSIC 99 OO©©© Venue 45 - Old St Paul's Church & Hall,Jeffrey Street Tickets 556 0476 JI3 ■MissaFESTIVAL MASSES Old St. Paul' s Choir and Orchestra perform Mozart's s Brevis in F (15th Aug); Haydn' s Theresienmesse (22nd Aug); and Widor' Mass forthe2'Hchoirs organs (29th called idden10.and of theFree RoyalAug) Mile'amid . liturgical splendour, in a church Aug 15,22,29 3Gem 0 (12.15) ■orchestra BRANDENBURG NO. 2Shankland,

by Bach, performed by the Old St. Paul'sCONCERTO s',Pdirected Leslie a programme that includesofMilhaud.

Stravinsky' ulcinella' byBallet Music, and 'Laincreation du Monde' byAugDarius 18 19.45 (21.45) £6.00 (£4.00) HILDEGARD ANDTHE QUEEN OF HEAVEN and medieval polyphony Hildegard Bingen, andvoices others, praisePlainsong the Blessed Mary. AThenewbyScotsman). show by theoffour angelic ofinCanty. ('ofMagical, mystical,Virgin even erotic' Aug Aug 20,21 20,21 14.16.0055 (15.00) (17.00) £6.00 (£4.00) ■programme ORCHESTRAL CONCERT Theconducted orchestrabyof Robert Old St Paul' sWeber, performs a of 19thBeethoven Century classics, Dick:Concerto; Oberon Overture; Symphony No 5; Brahms Double with Long, violin; Robin Mason, cello.

Aug Roderick 25 19.45 (21.45) £6.00and(£4.00) WILLIAM BYRD MASSES & MOTETS Byrd's Masses from theby late Century performed on consecutive days withvocalplainsong and ('motets the 16th DUNEDIN CONSORT, Scotland' s dynamic ensemble.

A dmirable, powerful and14.expressive' Aug (15.00) The£6.00Scotsman). (£4.00) Aug 27-29 27-29 22.0505 (23.00) ■of THE KING' S MUSICK The Viol VIConsort a programme musicto sing fromOrlando the timeGibbon' of Kings James & Song' I. Old'A, written Strcadia' Paul'spresent will join with them 'Welcome toChoir be performed in Holyrood Palace in 1617.

Aug 30 19.45 (21.45) £6.00 (£4.00) ON THE WAGON OQ©©0 Venue 112 - Princes Street Gardens West, 19 ■an ON THE WAGON Music on the move from the ' H eart of Scotland' exciting, multi-talented 5 piece Scottish/ Irish folk band performing a wide range traditional/ folk music on their own travelling stage.

Not to9-1ofbe1,16-18,23-25 missed. contemporary Aug Free Various starting times, check Daily Diary for details PHILOMUSICA OF EDINBURGH OOOOO Venue 91 - St Mary's Cathedral, Palmerston Place J7 ■members TRIBUTE TO DAVID HUME (1937 1999) Present and former of this popular chamber orchestra join together to perform works from repertoire, built up since pieces14anbyextensive Bach,(22.00) Handel, Vivaldi,(£5.00) Mozart, etc. its foundation in 1976. Favourite Aug 20.00 £7.00 PLEASANCE FESTIVAL 99 ©Q©00 Venue 33 - Pleasance, 60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550 LI4 ■NinCAROLINE NIN - LUSHwithLIFE Last year' s 'Herald Angelofferswinner Caroline is back at the Pleasance her new show.

L ush Life' seedy torch songs with'Soriginal unmissable 'spine-tingling, tear-jerking revelation' Time Out. tunning, material. sensuous,Anstylish' The Stage.

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ROBIN LAING AND FRIENDS 00©©0 Venue 102 - Scotch Malt Whisky Society, The Vaults, 87 Giles St Leith Info 554 3451 BI9 WHISKY,WOMEN AND SONG Scotsmen like two things naked - and one' s whisky.

Witty Scottish songsters Robin Laing and Jim Malcolm celebrate whisky and women in a dram!! lovely venue, well stocked with delicious rare malts.

Price 10,17,18,24,25 includes one free Aug 20.00 (22.00) £12.50 (includes one free whisky) CRAWSs AND UNTIES Robin Laing andsongGordeanna McCulloch.Two of Scotland' best interpreters oftotraditional jointo forces to cover the entire sweep of Scots song.

Ballads Burns, the Bothy the Boozer.

Passion, and moments. 20.00 (22.00) £ 12.50 (includes one free whisky) mirth Augcreepy 8,9,11,15,16,22,23 ROCKET VENUES 00©©0 Venue 16 - RocketVenue @TheatreArts Centre, 10 Davie Street Tickets 667 6666 LI3 ★andSAMUEL HILL & DADDI ROCO An elegant fusion of beautiful melodies experimental textures from songwriter Sam Hill. ' O ne of the most important songwriters to appear' Aktic (Holland) and guitarist Alan engineer musician Cornershop' album.Gregson, Aug 23-28and21.00 (22.10)from£6.00 (£5.00) s Mercury nominatedSuitable for ages 12+ ★ TOM DUNCAN - MODERN CELTICoriginal HARPandTomtraditional Duncan, songs harper and harpbuilder from the USA, will perform in his own virtuoso style. Many songs from his new CD 'Harpdude' will be featured Aug 14,15in his18.programme.

30 (19.35) £5.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 10+ ST ANDREWS AND ST GEORGES AT FESTIVALTIME oo©©o Venue 111 - St Andrew's & St George's Church, 13 George Street Tickets 225 3847 HI I ST. ANDREW’S AND ST. GEORGE' S CHURCH A very warm welcome awaitsNewyouTown, at theSt.venue where youSt. could spend your offers entire anFestival! the s andsome George' ambientSituated in atmosphere in whichAndrew' to enjoy stunnings Church music programmes.

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Aug 13 19.30 (21.15) Free Suitable for ages 10+ ■Lebanese/Russian LYRICA - LOVE SONGS OF THEof Strauss,Tchaikovsky, I9TH/20TH CENTURIES duo perform works Puccini in a truly exotic style.

Aug 14 12.30 (13.30) £5.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 10+ ■music THEfromROARING TWENTIES and lively programme of piano between the wars, playedA byunique Margaret Jaffrey-Smith.

Aug 14 14.30 (16.15) £6.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 10+ ■selections LIEDERofRECITAL VivienDuparc, Liu andRachmaninov Mack Sawyerand(Geneva) perform ravishing lieder by Faure, Richard Strauss.

Aug 14 19,30(21.15) £7.00 (£6.00) Suitable for ages 10+ ■ GLADSTONE S BAGera.AFlute, programme of favourite classics and music-hall tunes Victorian violin, clarinet and piano.

Aug 16from12.the 30 (13.30) Free ■andBRITISH SONG 20TH CENTURY duo Mark Wilde returnOF withTHE(£5.00) a fascinating retrospectiveAcclaimed of theSuitable century.

AugAlan 16 Jacques 14.30 (16.15) £6.00 for ages 10+ ■LoisLOVE A LA CARTE A feast of mouth-watering song with Frances Cooper, Johnston (sopranos) and Richard Lewis (piano).

Aug 17 I2.30 (13.30) £5.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 10+ ■Poulenc.

CLARINET KALEIDOSCOPE The versatile clarinet.

Classical - Mozart, Jazzy - Acker Bilk, Benny Goodman, etc. Philip Greene (clarinet), Michael17 Lester-Cribb Aug 14.30 (16.15) (piano). £6.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages I0+ ■Bach,ORGAN RECITALS Aug Aug 18: Christoph Cathedral)- Mendelssohn, Elgar, Weir.

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MATTHEW HENRICK bartitone),Alan Jacques Lieder,premiere). melodie, songs (acclaimed

by AustralianAustralian composers: Jane Hammond - Song Cycle (world Aug 18 14.30(16.IS) £6.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 10+ ■(piano) SONGperform RECITAL Festivalbyfavourites (tenor)Words). and Leon Coates song cycles Finzi and John BrittenCox(Winter Aug 19 12.30 (13.30) £5.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 10+ ■music EDINBURGH BAROCK - THE AULD ALLIANCE Richportraits, and witty from baroque France and Scotland.

Rameau, Couperin, birds and bagpipes.

20 12.30 (13.30) £6.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 10+ PRINCES STREET GARDENS Aug ■best'ONIONS AND VICHY WATER Jennifer Logan atPoulenc, her effervescent Scotsman and Alan Jacques celebrate centenarians Coward FRIDAY mm and Augcontemporaries.

20 14.30 (16.15) £6.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 10+ ■Edinburgh CHOIRperform AND ORCHESTRA of St. Andrew's and St. George'sPassion' Church, Aug 21 12.30 (13.30)Handel' Frees 'Passion of Christ' from the 'Brockes Suitable for ages. 10+ ORBfTAL ■ SONGS OF THE NIGHT impressive Fires of Love present Renaissance mischief, grief and Scotsman.

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22 19.3'0Superb (21.15)singing...an £7.00 (£6.00) collection of talent'Suitable for ages 10+ ■some THEearlyDAWN OFbyTHE STRING QUARTET Edinburgh Galante perform quartets Haydn, Boccherini etc. on period instruments.

Aug 23 12.30 (13.30) £5.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 10+ ■musicians IAN AINSWORTH (bass-baritone), ALAN GRAHAM (piano) seek and other animals in songs of Schubert, Poulenc and 20th-century English composers.

Aug 24 12.30 (13.30) £5.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 10+ QUEEN’S HALL ■ SCHUMANN AT LARGEtoPiano recital - Michael Lester-Cribb.

Illustrating UTH-SOTH AUGUST some of Schumann' s solutions the problems of large scale musical Aug 24 14.30 (16.15) £6.00 (£5.00) Suitablearchitecture. for ages 10+ IVOR CUTLER ■returns PIANO RECITALS Brilliant London-based pianist Geoffreyby Bach, Dancer to perform two different recitals consisting of works Beethoven Aug 26,27 and12.3Schubert.

0 (13.30) £5.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 10+ THE FALL ■ CLARINET AND PIANO A spectacular recital byandLorna Holl and Leon Coates to include music by Brahms, Arnold Poulenc.

Aug 26 14.30 (16.15) £6.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 10+ MARC ALMond ■ THE MERLYN TRIO Daphne Godson, Patricia Hair and Leon Coates present27 piano Aug 14.30 trios (16.15)by Beethoven £6.00 (£5.00)(Op.70 No.2) and Arensky.Suitable for ages 10+ ...AND MORE ' ■ ORGAN SPECTACULAR Maestro Alberto Massimo guarantees thrills and spills galore with some more amazing arrangements of stage and Augscreen 28 12.favourites.

00 (13.00) £5.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 10+ TICKETS & FULL GIG GUIDE ■spanning GARETH HUNT' S solo piano debut at the Fringe explores repertoire three centuries with works by Gibbons, Beethoven and Chopin.

AVAILABLE AT Aug 28 14.00 (15.00) £5.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 10+ WWW.FLUXFESTiyAL.COM ■ THE COATES DUOChausson, presents Poulenc a programme commemorating anniversaries of Strauss, and Chopin.

Heather Coates (soprano), Coates£5.00 (piano).

Aug 28 16.Leon 00 (17.00) (£4.00) Suitable for ages 10+ OR PICK UP A BROCHURE ■ DUO ZENE David Kirby (clarinet), GarethGershwin, Hunt (piano) return to perform AT THE QUEEN'S RAIT— aAugthrilling transatlantic programme featuring Bernstein 29 14.00 (15.00) £5.00 (£4.00) SuitableandforMartinu. ages 10+ ■of the ENSEMBLE brings Vienna tofromEdinburgh.

Anandevening of music including some most memorable pieces Strauss Lehar operettas.

Aug 28 19.30 (21.30) £7.00 (£6.00) Suitable for ages 10+ ST CUTHBERTS PARISHRECITALS CHURCH oo©©o LUNCHTIME ORGAN Venue 122 - St Cuthbert's Parish Church, 5 Lothian Road J9 ■CHURCH LUNCHTIME ORGAN RECITALS AT ST CUTHBERT' S PARISH 10 recitals on large romantic Walker organ given by prominent organists Edinburgh and elsewhere.

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ST MARKS IN CASTLE TERRACE 00©©0 Venue 125 - St Mark's Unitarian Church, Castle Terrace J9 ■arranged VIOLAforEXTRAVAGANZA Aug 10: William Tell and Capriccio Italian massed violas and triangle.

Full Peer Gynt over Thurs/Fri. Aug 10 14.30 (15.30)14.30£5.00 (£3.00) Aug £5.00 (£3.00)£6.50 Double19,20,26,27 Bil Price for any 2(15.30) Viola Extravaganzas Suitable for ages 10+ ■andMARY YOUNG & NELDA j HARDIE Recital Schumann,

by Mary Young, soprano Nelda J Hardie, piano, of songs including Purcell, Brahms, Head.10+ Aug 12 20.15 (21.45) £6.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages ■PianoMARGARET WAKEFORD & SIMON COVERDALE PIANO DUO duetandmasterworks from France and Germany including Mozart, Schubert, Schmitt Debussy.

Aug 14 20.00 (21.50) £6.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 10+ ■insight JOSCELYN STEELE (PIANO) TOTAL INVOLVEMENT... a deep into the soul of the works played.

Scarlatti, Liszt, Chopin, Kabalevsky, Debussy and Albeniz.

Aug IS 20.00 (21.30) £5.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 10+ ■op.WILLIAM ALEXANDER PLAYS Piano favourites, Beethoven sonata 10921 and14.works Aug 00 (16.00)by Bach, £6.00Mozart, (£4.00) Schubert, Chopin and others.

Suitable for ages 10+ ■a terrific LUCYprogramme CARTLEDGE - FLUTE Firsttrio!classMozart, professional artists perform for flute and string Roussel,Villa-Lobos and Augothers.

22 20.00 (22.00) £7.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 10+ ■newCARMINA GADELICA Carpe Diem Productions presents anAexciting choral work by Edinburgh born composer Peter D Robinson. haunting combination of the pagan and the Christian in this setting of translations of Ancient Gaelic hymns, chants and incantations.

Aug 23-26 20.45 (21.45) £5.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 12+ ■KeithFRANCIS MARTINEAU Solo piano in theHislonger form style as developed by Jarrett,Terry Abdullah Ibrahim. arises of a rich blend of jazzRileyandandclassical influences and adistinctive playful meeting betweenout form and improvisation.

Aug 23,24,26 18.00 (19.00) £5.00 Suitable for ages 10+ ■perform ROBINworks MICHAEL & REBECCA WOOLCOCK Cello and piano duo by Prokofiev, Bach, Schnittke and Brahms.

Aug 24 14.00 (15.30) £6.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 10+ ■REBECCA MIA COOPER, ELAINEViolin, COCKS, ROBIN MICHAEL AND perform WOOLCOCK Clarinet, Cello and Piano Quartet French25masterpieces Aug 17.00 (19.00)and£6.00Messiaens (£3.00) 'End ofTime'.

Suitable for ages 10+ ■ MDINA MUSIC Munro Micallef (piano)Debussy. present anAug intriguing blend ofJanet piano and song(soprano), includingLucia Chopin, Handel, 27 18.

0 0 (19.00) £5.00 (£3.00) Aug 28 15.00 (16.00) Suitable for ages 12+ 1 CAMEO: 'An Evening'...Awith NoelblendCoward costumed entertainment combining songs and readings. skilful of words and music' Scotsman.

Aug 27,28 20.45 (21.45) £6.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 10+ ■PLATFORM SHEILA GRAHAM & STUART TO PARLOUR PopularMONTGOMERY mezzo-soprano and- FROM pianist with 19th 29century and pop-songs.

Aug 20.15art-songs (21.45) £6.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 10+ ■programmes BAROQUEfromFEAST! THE BANQUET OF MUSICK Corelli instruments. to Bach and the magnificent RosaryPresent Sonatasvaried byAugHeinrich Biber.

Period 00 (16.15)£6.00£6.00(£4.00) (£4.00) Aug 29,30 30 22.1015.(23.10) Suitable for ages 12+ ■Cribb CELLO AND PIANO RECITAL Robin Mason (cello)andandLester-Cribb.

Michael Lester(piano) in the grip of Beethoven, Poulenc, Stravinsky Aug 30 17.00 (18.30) £6.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 10+ ■(SOPRANO) SQUAIR MILE SWEETNAM EarlyCONSORT music for violsOFandVIOLS consort& ROSIE songs: Rich Repertoire from Tallis to Purcell.

Aug 31 20.00 (22.00) £6.00 (£4.00) Sept 3 20.00 (22.00) £600 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 10+ ■perform CAROLYN CHADWICK (SOPRANO) JOHN MOORE (PIANO) French, Spanish and German songs plus first performance of work bySeptGeorgi I 14.Mintchev.

30 (16.00) £6.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 10+

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ST MARY S CATHEDRAL OO©©0 Venue 91 - St Mary's Cathedral, Palmerston Place Ji i ■Eucharist: CATHEDRAL FESTIVAL CHORAL SUNDAY SERVICES 15th: I0.30j* ’ j Mozart Coronation Mass; 15.30 Evensong: Weelkes Service for Trebles.

10.3029th: EucahriscVierne Solenelle;15.3015.30Evensong: Evensong:Taverner Collegium22nd: Regale.

10.30 Eucahrist:Messe Palestrina; Dyson in D. ri Aug Aug 15,22,29 15,22,29 10.30 15.30 (11.30) (16.15) Free ■SungCATHEDRAL FESTIVAL CHORAL EVENSONG ONsWEEKDAYS by theByrd. internationally renowned cathedral choir.This year' on(Doors William Wednesday Aug 18 broadcast live on BBC Radiomusic 3, 16.00focuses close 15.45).

Aug Aug 16,17,19,20,23-28 18 16.00 (17.00) 17.30 (18.15) Free ■Organ ORGAN RECITALSrecital Free hour-long renowned FatheronWillis includes byfrom JamestheO'concerts Donnellon(22nd).

Full details Cathedral Festivalcelebrity leaflet(17.30) availableFree Cathedral and elsewhere.

Aug 8,15,22,29 16.30 ■ LATE-NIGHT Three10th late-night surveying theAdagio choral and organ musiconofVeniDURUFLE Durufle.

Includes: -Jubilo; Suiteconcerts Op 5;- 17th - Prelude, and Variations Creator: Messe cum 24th Requiem.Timothy Byram-Wigfield (Organ); of St Mary's Cathedral.

Aug 10,17,24 22.30 (23.15)Choir£3.00 ■TuesLUNCHTIME CONCERTS Mon 16th: Morley Whitehead (Organ); 17th; St Mary's19th; MusicMark School String Ensemble;Wed l8th:Toby Sigouin (Trombone);Thurs Wood (Baritone); Fri 20th: tba Aug 16-20 13.10 (13.50) Free ■ CHOIR OFsinging ST MARY' S with CATHEDRAL IN CONCERT To celebrate 21 years ofbothgirlssacred the boy choristers, this concert musicmusic andtogether secular.

Includes Britten Missa Brevis, Schubertfeatures Psalm 23 and by Franck and 20th Century Composers.

Aug 27 19.30 (21.00) £5.00 ■between PHOEBE ANNAPhoebe TRAQUAIR SONG SCHOOL MURALS 1888-1892, Traquair' s acclaimed murals, fully restoredPainted in 1998, illustrate the canticle ' B enedicite omnia opera' .

They show pre-Raphaelite influence and(notareSuns) a moving expression of faith. Meet at West Door of Cathedral.

Aug 9-28 12.00 (13.00) Free Aug 9-28 (not Suns) 14.00 (15.00) Free ■'Vespers' SCOTTISH CHAMBER CHOIR FESTIVAL CONCERT Mozart and Handel ixit Dominus' Aug IS 20.00 (21.45)'D£7.00 (£5.00) , with string ensemble.

■presents VIVALDI: GLORIAincluding - CADENZA CHOIR,Monteverdi: conductedBeatus

by Graham Lovett, a programme Vivaldi: Gloria, Vir, Gorecki: Totus Tuus,mixed Rutter: 5 Childhood Lyrics, anthems

by John Tavener.

Cadenza is a talented voice choir based in Edinburgh.

Aug 21 20.00 (22.00) £7.00 (£5.00) ST MICHAEL & ALL SAINTS CHURCH OO©©© Venue 95 - St Michael and All Saints' Church, Brougham Street L9 j ■sacred MUSIC ATin ST MICHAEL & ALL SAINTS Come and hearHaydn glorious'St music the setting of high Mass for which it was written: Mass1st(15th with orchestra); Kodaly 'Missa Brevis' (22nd); Bingham 'Nicholas' Missa15,22,29 Brevis' Aug 11.Scottish 00 (12.30)performance Free (29th). All are welcome.

SALSA CELTICA O0©©O Venue 72 - The Queen's Hall, Clerk Street Tickets 668 2019/cc 667 7776 N13 ■SalsaSALSA CELTICA With South American rhythms fired by the Celtic muse, Celtica are one of Scotland' s most popular live bands.

Joined by Venezuelan Carlos Pena and Cuba' s A Capella 'Vocal Sampling' (12th) and Groupo12,19,26 Folclorico (26th).sensations Aug 23.00Cutumba (03.00) £8.00 (£6.00) SEGOVIA 00©00 Venue 6 - NicolsonGUITAR Square MethodistTRIO Church, 25 Nicholson Square LI2 ■excitement SPANISHof Spain' GUITAR WORKS a programme vibrant with the colour and The Yorkshire Post.

Aug 17-19 13.00 (13.55) £5.00 (£4.00) SINFONIA Venue 131 - Greyfriars Kirk, Greyfriars Place, Candlemaker Row Tickets 667 2170 OOOOO K11 SINFONIA PLAYS MAHLER,WAGNER & MOZART Mahler Symphony No. I in D Major.Wagner prelude ' T he Mastersingers' Mozart Horn Concerto No. in Eb (K.447).

Soloist: Graeme Hodge. Conductor: Neil Mantle. Scotland's most329exciting orchestra - Hear it Live!(£3.00 Aug 17.

0 0 (18.30) £7.00 (£6.00) C) Aug 30 20.00 (21.30)

J§L THE BECK'S FAMOUS SPIEGELTENTOO©©© Venue Tickets87558- The8010Beck's Famous Spiegeltent, beside Scott Monument, Princes Street III ■dangerous Addictiveandpotion of cocktails, - life-affirming, intoxicating, seductive.

Travel toconcerts, Bohemia,clubs Capetown, Paris, Havana.

A pleasure garden follows.ofThehighlife showand mustlowlife! go off!See Spiegel programme for full details - a taste ■quartet THE ofPOOZIES An ail-too rare hugelyappearances. talented female and concert singers. from Only this Scottish Aug 19-21 high21.00calibre (21.30)musicians £8.00 (£6.00) ■notTAM S BIGbestBAND Tam and and Jazz Scotland' s hottest musicians to24-28 beWHITE' missed! funk.(£6.00) Blues anywhere!

Aug 19.30 The (21.30) £8.00 ■notERIC 'Bogle goes otheronly. songwriters could not or would go'22,23 TheBOGLE Scotsman.Two specialwhere concerts Aug 19.30 (21.30) £8.00 (£6.00) ■European ORIENT EXPRESS MOVING SHNORERS Irresistible Central tunes Jewish musicjazzreinterpreted bywithacclaimed French band.Yiddish crossed with dynamic and pickled humour. ' P ure joy' Le Monde.

Aug 15-17,19,3017.0023.00(18.30) (00.30) £7.00 (£5.00) Aug 21,27,28 Aug 29 19.30 (21.00) ■exciting PEATBOG most pumping, uplifting ScottishFAERIES fusion. 'ThisCreating fresh andthepowerfully insistent danceandmusic is a winner' Aug 22 23.00Scotsman.

(00.30) £7.00 (£5.00) ■ballads...

DEAFboth SHEPHERD Beautiful'aIsland ragingyoung tunes,traditional to lowland fiery and heartfelt, rguablymelodies Scotland'ands finest band' Scotsman.

Aug 31 19.30 (21.00) £8.00 (£6.00) THE OLD BLIND 'One of Scotland's hottest young folk properties' SoS.Triumphant returnDOGS to Planet Aug 29 23.00 (00.30) £7.00 (£5.00)Speigel - dance your sporran off.

FRUIT a sharpfunk,wedge of lemon in a ballads—delicious. stiff tequila! The List.

Hits of23-27 98'...like . Groovy sparkly pop, bold Aug 23.00 (00.30) £7.00 (£5.00) ■CatsBIGplaying BUZZARD BOOGIE BANDblues A 12-piece Honkin' bunchonoffire.Hep jazz, jive, funk, and boogie to setstompin' your soul Aug (00.30)swing,£8.00salsa,(£5.00) Aug 14,20,21 15-18 19.023.00 0 (20.30)

Music TEMPO MUSICAL PRODUCTIONS oooeo Venue 137 - Church Hil Theatre, Morningside Road 06 ■contemporary THE ANDREW BAIN QUARTET Edinburgh born drummer leads this jazz ensemble making their Festival debut.

They appear exclusively for five days beforeStevetravelling to Berlin. Don't miss out!(bass).

Featuring (saxes), Aug 23-27Max14.Wild 00 (15.00) £4.00 Holness (piano), Dave FosterSuitable for ages 12+ VALVONA & CROLLA 00©©0 Venue 67 - Valvona & Crolla, 19 Elm Row, top of Leith Walk Tickets 556 7800 G15 ■theirANNE EVANS & DICK LEE returning to delight Fringe audiences with unique of instruments and styles.recorder 2 players,- Scott 6 instruments clarinet, piano,mixture bassErikclarinet, saxophone, Joplin to Benny9,10,13,14 Goodman, Satie toflute,Dick Lee. Aug 18.00(19.10) £7.00 (£5.00) Aug 1,12 20.00 Aug 28I16,23 00 (21.10) (14.10) Aug 11.013.0 (12.10) ■performs THE EDINBURGH Scotland'alongs premier stringbyensemble fourRavel. of Mozart' sQUARTET greatest quartets, works Debussy and A magical, recent critic commented:' .... awith performance ofBorodin, brilliance, culminating in a truly spellbinding effect' Aug 21 -25 (not 22) I 1.00 (12.10) £ 10.00 (£8.00) Suitable for ages 10+ ■performance GUITARSOLO LucaVillani returnsallforthea nuances fourth compelling guitar on theelegance Fringe of- touching of the sixvirtuosity strings, from the delicate the classical to the flamboyant ofAugthe14-20 modern South American style.£7.00 (£5.00) (not IS) 11.

0 0 (12.05) Aug 21 15.00 (16.05) £7.00 (£5.00) ■unique NEAPOLITAN SONGS ContiniThesings the songs of Naples in hisand style 'witharrangements passion and Philip sentiment' Scotsman.

Featuring mandolin piano in original for this all-new programme.

Eight performances only. Early booking advised.20.00 (21.05) £8.00 (£5.00) Aug 13,14,16-18,26-28 VALVONA & CROLLA continues over the page ATAIOU PROMOTIONS 1TD PRESENTS

THE LEAGUE AGAINST IQIUM LIS AM UBERTECHE0K0MELIE (©™pats.app.) “featuring” (©™pats.app.) Corking & UNCORKING one-liners (©™pats .app.) Hip hop juxtapositions (©™ pats.app.) The Uanity Experiment (©™pats.app.) & Plenny Teets (©™ pats.app.)

“The HelenEuent Hawkinsof -the The Year.”

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Music VALVONA & CROLLA continued ■ ZAPATEADO: MANDOLIN & GUITAR potent cocktail of Classical, Traditional &toInternational music played

by AlisonAisStephens & Martin Byatt.

From Vivaldi Django, this unusual programme sure to leave you stirred but not9-13shaken!!!

Aug 11.00(12.10) £7.00 (£5.00)

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THE WAVERLEY BAR - UPSTAIRS OQ©©0 Venue 133 - The Waverley Bar, St Mary's Street K13 FOLK ATScottish THE WAVERLEY Small pubsurroundings. venue provides rare opportuntity to■between enjoy top Folk acts in intimate Concerts rotate Tabache, Allan Johnston, Kevin MacLeoddetails withavailable Freelandat Barbour, Malinky,9-28Gilly venue.

Aug (notHewitt, Suns)plus19.3others.

0 (21.00)Performers £5.00 (£4.00) WHISTLEBINKIES OOO0O Venue 111 - St Andrew's & St George's Church, 13 George Street Tickets 225 3847 H11 ■groups WHISTLEBINKIES One of Scotland' s longest established traditional perform music old and new in a wonderful acoustic setting: Gaelic and Scots songs, Lowlandfrom bagpipes, clarsach, viola, concertinas, drums.

Featuring successfulflute, newfiddle, CD TimberTimber (Greentrax).

Aug 28 19.selections 30 (21.30) £7.00their(£5.00) Suitable for ages 9+ WHITBURN BAND OOOOO Venue 72 - The Queen's Hall, Clerk Street Tickets 668 2019/cc 667 7776 N13 ■in WHITBURN BAND Scotland' s premier brass band presents ' C hampions Brass' in concert with the world renowned Halle Brass featuring the very best of12the19.Brass Band £repertoire.

Concert sponsored by Punter Southall & Co. Aug 45 (22.00) 10.00,£7.00,£5.00

Andre VINCENT

"IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A STAR OF THE FUTURE IT WILL BETHEANDRE SCOTSMAN VINCENT\\ 4 - 30 AUGUS PLEASANCE 0131 556 6550 (eXCEPT 16 AUGUST) PRCVIEWS: 4 & 5 at IQ.OOp 64

ABSOLUTE BANANA THEATRE COMPANY 00©00 Venue 123 - Rocket Venue @ South Bridge Resource Ctr, Infirmary Street Tickets 558 9991 KI3 ★ ■ DANGEROUS Rumoursexplores and accusations, mistrustjealousy, and allegations.

Hyde' sGAMES new production betrayal, deceit, sexuality andofDantheir devastating consequences in this exciting popDangerous musical from the producers last year' s 5 star hit.

Beautiful Thing.

We' r e playing Games.

Aug 9-21 (not 15) 20.15 (22.15) £6.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 12+ AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOLTHEATRE FESTIVAL oo©oo Venue 137 - Church Hil Theatre, Morningside Road 06 CRAZY FOR YOU Gerswhin' s extravaganza, filled with song and dance and Ken Ludwig' s hilarious dialogue. be swept in this artfully constructed tale of18boy meeting in theAudiences wild west,willwhere theyupultimately fall in love.

Aug 20.15 (21.45)girl £5.00 (£3.00) Aug 19 16.15(17.45) Aug 2120 10.18.15(19.45) 15 (11.45) Aug CHILDREN OF EDEN Adam,by Eve, Cain,Schwartz, Abel, Noah,theaaward snake...and who goes byof Father.

A musical Stephen winninga brother composer Godspell and Pippen with book by John Caird.

Aug 1617 22.15 12.15(13.45) £5.00 (£3.00) Aug Aug 20,21 16.(23.45) 15 (17.45) ■newSCHOOLHOUSE ROCK LIVE! Adaynostalgic blastandfrom the past! Tammy, teacher, is the nervous about herthe first of school thefun schoolhouse rocka gang comes to rescue!

Join schoolhouse gang its for everyone.

Aug 1618 14.15(15.45) £5.00 (£3.00) Aug Aug 18.10.15(11.45) 15 (19.45) Aug 2021 22.15 (23.45) ■electric A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Shakespeareworld comesof alive with guitarsandandfabric a midsummer night' s adventure...a magic and rock &Frolic roll. through Fairies define the space...fun filled and fabulously physical. one of Shakespeare' s classics.

Aug 1517 20.15 (21.45) £5.00 (£3.00) Aug 16.15(17.45) Aug 18.15(19.45) Aug 2119 10.15(11.45) ■ OKLAHOMA Rodgers Hammersteins Oklahoma, an American musical which setPacific the standards and&established the rules, performed by younggenuinely artists from the North West, USA. A masterpiece of musical theatre, popularIS culture at its very best.(£3.00) Aug 22.15 (23.45) £5.00 Aug 17 18.15(19.45) Aug (21.45) Aug 2119 20.15 12.15(13.45) WORKING Based on Studsexplores Terkel's best selling book of interviews American originalwith words of22.15 theworkers,Working working class.

Don' t missthethisworkday original through conceptthemusical.

Aug 16 (23.45) £5.00 (£3.00) Aug 18 18.15(19.45) Aug Aug 2019 12.15(13.45) 14.15 (15.45) Venue 34 - The Famous Grouse House, 5 Chambers Street Tickets 220 S606 K12 AMidsummer MIDSUMMER NIGHT' Sa MADNESS Adapted froma play!

Shakespeare' s Night' s Dream play within a play within Set in the chaotic world Titania and asOberon' s sparring characters of the play juxtapose with12.of1one another Aug 15,21 5 (13.45) £5.00scenes (£3.00)topple over scenes.

Aug 17 14.15(15.45) Aug 19 10.15(11.45)

Musicals & Opera ARKLE THEATRE COMPANY 00©00 Venue 114 - Theatre East End, St Paul's and St George’s Church,York PI. Tickets 558 9800 H13 ■ PERCHANCE TO DREAM An and enchanting hour ofin Shakespeare' songs sonnets interwoven monologues, settings fromAs Schubert toand Sondheim.

Judithpolish, Plint,with Bryanscenes Pilkington and- aRichard Lewis return. class act ***** Exceptional considerable talent magical evening.

Aug (23.45) £5.00 Aug 2116-2018.122.45 5 (19.15) Suitable for ages 10+ ART-VIC ANGLO RUSSIAN THEATRE 00©00 Venue 143 - The Bongo Club, out of the blue, 14 New Street (off Royal Mile) Tix 556 5204 J14 ★between ■ HOUSE OF PASSIONS by Olena Pchyolka, performed by collaboration Anglo passions.

Russian Theatre Theatres mime KOLESO. of celebration, ComediaanddelUkranian Arte, Chaplin' alongTest withatmosphere Ukranian folk music and dance!

Aug 9-19 (not IS) 12.40 (13.50) £7.00 (£5.00) AURORA/WESTERN ®o©©o STATE UNIVERSITY CONNECTICUT MI2 Venue 82 - Komedia @ Southside, 117 Nicolson Street Tickets 667 2212 ★ ■ MACBETH 2000physical A MULTI-MEDIA ROCKrockMUSICAL Combines stunning video, dance, theatre and original songs using Shakespeare' s text.opera 'Intense, intriguing and Dooftennotstirs the blood... visual magic... impressive rock News£7.50 Times.

Aug 6-22 (not 16) 22.15score'(23.45) (£5.50) miss! Suitable for ages 12+ BRUNSTANE NORTH OOOOO Venue 43 - Royal Museum and Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street Tickets 247 4219 K12 ★glamour, ■ TINSEL! A spirited and frothy new musical, recalling the excitement, andasheer funonof theI930'1997 s Hollywood.

Written

by BoothNodaandNews.

Kent, whose 'Bintrigue rodie!' was sell-out Fringe. 'Tinsel is superb!'

Aug 9-13 19.

0 0 (22.00) £6.50 (£4.50) Aug 14 14.00 (17.00) CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY ADC OO©©© Venue 23 - Chaplaincy Centre, I Bristo Square Tickets 662 8882 LI2 CLOSERTHAN EVER Sexy New York tales of the city.

A cabaret cocktail of jazz, blues and Broadway, with a dash of soul and a twist of fate.

Mixed by the team behind(not 'Chicago' and 'C(23.50) ompany'£7.00 . *****(£5.00) Scotsman.

Aug 18-30 23) 22.15 COMPANY THEATRE ©0©©0 Venue 47 - The Cafe Royal, 17 West Register Street Tickets 556 2549 112 ★her■voyage DON'ofT discovery TOUCH from ME THERE A beautiful, pregnant young bride charts schoolgirl to the altar, via the many men she' s entertained.Griffiths.

Let's skip the foreplay and go straight to the music. Songs and sex, with Aug Vicky 7-30 (not 16,23) 13.00 (13.40) £5.00 (£4.00) DIABOLICAL PRODUCTIONS 00©©0 Venue 28 - Greyfriars Kirk House, Candlemaker Row Tickets 225 3626 Kl I ★Choose PLAYTIME PLUS THE TAXIDERMIST' S DAUGHTER Taxidermy.

Chooseto corporal punishment. nymphomania.

Choose getting thrashed <***ingthem bigChoose cane. and disembowelling householddeathpets.with Weachose all andChoose set themformaldehyde to music.

God help us.

Aug 17-30 (not 23) 22.30 (23.50) £4.00 (£3.00) THE AWARD-WINNING STAGE 84 IN THEIR 9TH YEAR AT THE FRINGE PRESENT MY FAIR LADY DIRECTED & CHOREOGRAPHED

BY MICHAEL KIRKBY MUSICAL DIRECTOR JIM LUNT THE GREATEST MUSICAL OF THE 20TH CENTURY. WINNER OF 8 ACADEMYAWARDS August 10th to 14th 7.15pm Sat 14th Matinee at 2.15pm Adults £7.50 Children/Concessions £5.00 Box Office (0385) 244984 Fringe (0131) 2265138

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rhythm of life EDINBURGH ACTING SCHOOL OO0OO Venue 177 -YMCA,73 Ferry Road Tickets 07775 871 342 / 556 0007 BI7 ■It isBIGbrought This tonewyoumusical is 5-star based cast on theof EAS. popular film guaranteed starring TomtoHanks. by the A show make you laugh, cry and30 (20.45) relive the£6.00kid (£4.50) inside you.

Aug Aug 2117-2114.018.0 (16.15) Suitable for ages 7+ EDINBURGH YOUTH THEATRE 0O©OO Venue 62 - Continental Shifts at St Bride's, 10 Orwell Terr. Tickets 346 1405 K5 ■staged CABARET The Kit Kat club is recreated in this exciting new production by Edinburgh' s premier youth theatre company.

Life is a cabaret and certainly this production is! Physical and musical theatre at its best.

Refreshments Aug 5-21 (notavailable.

Suns) 22.30 (00.30) £5.00 (£2.50) FESTIVAL THEATRE USC-USA ®0©©0 Venue Theatre,14 July) Drummond Community High School, 41 Belle25vue- PIDrummond Tickets 558Community 9695 (after F13 NUNSENSE byaDan Goggin. toBestburyOff-Broadway musical.poisoned Little Sisters of Hoboken put on fund-raiser sisters accidentally by the convent cook,N.YSister (Child of God). 'A hail of fun and frolic! Wacky & outrageous' . Times.Julia21.30 Aug 8,14,15,21,22,28 (23.30) £5.00 Suitable for ages 5+ WORKING A new Mary musicalRodgers, from theSusanbookBirkenhead,

by Studs Terkel withSchwartz, songs byJames Craig Carnelia, Mickigrant, Stephen Taylor.

A their workworkaday of the theatre.

Heroes, Heroines, seldom memorialised speak and sing-out lives.

Aug 10,12,17,19,24,26 21.30 (23.30) £5.00 Suitable for ages 5+ ★ TEA & CRUMPETS - A NEW hasMUSICAL BestherOriginal Musical' Son Francisco Theatre problem...Winner It's not computer affected

by Y2K, it's your herCritics.life!wayAdrianna Anhome. eccentricacomedy about marriage, money, murder and finding Aug 6,1 1,13,18,20,25,27 21.30 (23.15) £5.00 Suitable for ages 8+ FIRST ACT OPERA INTERNATIONAL 000©0 Venue 126 - C cubed, St John's Hall, West End, Princes Street Tickets 225 5105 19 ★Benjamin ■ MISTER BUTTERFLY Madame ButterflyThis - theone-act sequel.The tragedy of Franklin Pinkerton lll,a G.l. in Vietnam. contemporary opera, music. premiered in China,Kenneth featuresRoberts. diverse Libretto: influencesMichael from Vietnamese world Composer: Powell. to 'Aug Brave22-27 and challenging' South China Morning Post.

13.45 (15.00) £7.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 12+ FORTH CHILDREN'S THEATRE ©OOOO Venue 120 - Inverleith Church Hall, Ferry Road (opp Granton Road) A9 LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS Edinburgh' s most exciting youth theatre company celebrating their 21st Fringe production invite you to dinner with Audrey II,feast the man-munching fly-trap. Join Seymour and the gang for a fun-filled of8)family entertainment.

Aug 6-14 (not 19.

3 0 (21.45) £5.50 (£4.50) Aug 30 (16.45) £4.50 Aug 714 14.14.30(16.45) £5.50 (£4.50) Suitable for ages 8+ GILDED BALLOON ®0©©0 Venue 38 - Gilded Balloon Theatre, 233 Cowgate Tickets 226 2151 K12 SUPERGIRLY WORLD! The world that wearelove is in danger., there arepoptwo women plotting for world domination., they ' S upergirly' . . performing hits with butchered current victims include Martine McCutcheon, Billie and 'They22)do itlyrics, very,(00.15) very well'£9.00 Evening if AugSteps.

6-29 (not 23.15 (£8.00)Standard. ★playSWEET MIRACLESfansThemadenamehergiven to Britain' sshelatestbelieved girl band.

A they musical about success.The successful and what told her was true. Book and lyrics by Richard Vergette. Music by Patrick Dailly.

Aug 6-30 (not 10,24) 12.00 (13.15) £6.50 (£5.50) % Venue 36 - Gilded Balloon I , People's Palace,Old Fishmarket Close Tickets 226 2151 KI2 POISONING PIGEONS THE PARK An afternoon of mirth and merriment penINofTom Aug 6-30 from 14.15 the (15.30)sick £7.00 (£6.00)Lehrer. Devised by Richard F. Green.

THE H.R.T.C. OOOOO Venue 117 -Viewforth Centre, 104 Gilmore Place Tickets 229 7659 M6 ■is aTHE BOY FRIEND This well-loved musical comedy, set in the 1920s pleasure to watch.

Following our storming success at Durham University we to give production' an innocent,Anton quality,Rogers stress-free s entertainment.

'Trulyaim10-14 fantastic (Originalafternoon' I950's cast).

Aug 16.00 (18.45) £3.50 Suitable for ages 10+ 66

conceived and written by amanda mackenzie stuart a captivating show based on the life and lyrics of dorothy fields who penned such timeless classics as big spender, a fine romance and the way you look tonight. starring . morag mclaren 'magnificent voice" three weeks edinburgh 98 "virtuosic versatility" the Scotsman edinburgh 98 to feel the rhythm of life to feel the powerful beat to feel the tingle in your fingers to feel the tingle in your feet...

7 - 30 august (not 8,15 or 19) 7.55pm - 9.15pm hill street box office 0131 226 6522 fringe box office 0131 226 5138 tickets £8 & £6 (cone). hill street theatre, venue 41, 19 hill street, EH2 3JP

george square theatre

Venue 37 George Square, Edinburgh http://www.festivals.estates.ed.ac.uk Box Office ft Information: 0131 662 8740 From 12th July: office hours only From 7th August: 10am-10.30pm t COMPANY

SHAKESPEARE In Association with the STA( HOME* ^JULIET K MUSICAL ALL AGES 1 5TH - 30TH AUGUST (No^^hH) 1.00PM Prior to National Tour THEY SHOOT HORSES, □OISTT THEY? A play by Ray Herman based on a nouel by Horace McCoy "7th-30th AUGUST4PM [Not 1 BthD

Musicals & Opera LA DANSE FANTASTIQUE 000©0 Venue 37 - George Square Theatre, George Square Tickets 662 8740 M11 ★andTHE LEGEND OF BRIGADOON Do you believe in Witches, Warlocks Dragons?

Do you believe that love must conquer all?

Re-discover the Scottish Brigadoon£6.00and(£4.00) indulge in this Fantasy for allSuitable ages. for ages 4+ Aug 25-28legend10.0of0 (12.00) LAMPMAN PRODUCTIONS ®0©©0 Venue 126 - C cubed, St John's Hall, West End, Princes Street Tickets 225 5105 19 ★whose HEROES Who wouldn' t prefer a ' M ills and Boon' hero to a husband idea of romance is a takeaway pizza?

It' s when you start an affair with 'fictional' hero that housewives meetyour incurable romantics in thisproblems search arise... for trueGossiping Suitable Aug 6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30 12.love.00 (13.15) £5.00 (£4.00)for ages 11 +

LEICESTERSHIRE YOUTH ARTS 00©©0 Venue 65 - StAnn's Community Centre,South Gray's Close,Cowgate Tickets 557 0469 KI3 ■andGODSPELL by Stephen Schwartz.The show that broke the musical madenewstarsproduction of David Essex and Fringe' Jeremys Irons.

'Prepare yeperformers. the way' forSeemould a it dynamic from the favourite young 'Aug Day by16-28 Day!'(not 22) 14.00 (15.00) £5.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 12+ FAMEEndby smash!

Steve Margoshes, Jacques Levyof New and Jose Fernandez.The BroadwayArtsand West Follow the students York' s School of National Youth Music Theatre as they come to terms with life, work, relationships and the truePerforming cost of 'fame' ...

Supported by Andrew Lloyd Webber Aug 16-28 (not 22) 18.00 (19.00) £5.00 (£4.00) ■ THE HIRED MAN by Melvyn Bragg and Howard Goodall.

Cumbria, 1898.

“SENSATIONAL” Sunday Telegraph One working family's journey through love, war, joy and heartbreak. Brings alive the cavalcade history22)which swept us into new century - and a war to end wars.

“BRILLIANT” Guardian Aug 16-28of(not 20.00(21.15) £5.00a (£4.00) 10th - 22nd August 7pm (non 6th) LIVINGSTON MUSIC SOCIETY / OPERA MINORA (AMSTERDAM) 000©0 NEW COMEDY AWARDS Venue 197 - Howden Park Centre, Howden, Livingston Tickets 01506 433 634 HI Outer 16th August 8pm ★Promotions.

■ SUMMER OPERATIC AND MUSIC FESTIVAL Pat O'N- Comedy eill Scottish Welcome - Canadian Pianist Ron Greidanus 7)ur/rltjn youth 7)allet Operetta Der Schauspiel Direcktor (Mozart) - Bathgate Concert Orchestra.

For details of Master Classes for Piano (Aug 30-Sep 3) or Opera and Lothian19.30 Music(22.00) Competition (Sep 4) telephone 01506 854080.

Mo’ V/clf j West Aug 27,28 £5.00 (£3.00) The classicalhiRussianU.C Story ballet Sunrise LOTH IAN YOUTH ARTS & MUSICALS COMPANY A contemporary ballet ooooo 21st August 1 lam (not 16th) _z—~1 Venue 137 - Church Hil Theatre, Morningside Road 06 OKLAHOMA! 100 local kids perform Rodgers and Hammerstein' s Ha tbcuvie fyantaiticyue masterpiece.

High spirited rivalry between farmers and cowmen, the creation of a newwhich stateCurly and aand jealous farmhand contribute to the colourful background THE LEGEND OF BRIGADOON "jj against in love!

Aug 10-14 19.(16.30) 30 (21.30)Laurey £6.00 fall(£5.00) Indulge; yourself in this musical sc.

Aug 14 14.30 Suitable for ages 5+ fantasy for all ages 25th - 28th August 10.00 am MORAG MCLAREN ®0©©0 Venue 41 - Hil Street Theatre, 19 Hil Street Tickets 226 6522 H10 ★ ■ You DOROTHY FIELDS: RHYTHM OF LIFEenchanting Relish Bigjourney Spender' , The Way Look Tonight' and other classics in this from Tin Pan Hollywood Broadway.

Uncover the story behind Fields' timeless lyricsAlley withto(not West End Divato19.55(21.15) Morag McLaren.

Aug 7-30 8,15,19) £8.00 (£6.00) METROPOL THEATER, MUNICH OOO©® Venue 62 - Continental Shifts at St Bride’s, 10 Orwell Terr. Tickets 346 1405 K5 THE RIDER (Carl The casting of theWeber). magic Bybullets - a newBobversion of the supported by ARMSTONG and THE BRITISH COUNCIL William opera BLACK 'DS.Burroughs.The er Freischuetz Maria von Tom Waits, Wilson and part theatre, part rack concert, part plane crash... Aug 23-28 10.45 (12.45) best £8.00musical (£5.00)play in Munich 1998. Live band. “audiences werejQ crying with glee" The Observer ~ * MIDATLANTIC PRODUCTIONS 00©©0 Venue 152 - Augustine's, George IV Bridge Tickets 225 6575 Kl I 25-30 August 9.30pm ASSASSINS America the land where any kid can grow up to be President and where any President can be brought down by the crook of an assassin' s JOHNNY VEGAS 10th-15th August 9.45pm finger.

Sondheim' musical explores the darker side of the American Dream.s disturbingly funny 22.15 Jya/or, presents THE PUB LANDLORD Aug 9,11,13,15,18,20,22,25,27,29 (23.45) £5.00 (£4.00) ★ ■ FAR, FAR AWAY...

Theknown newest,universe, fastestraises and strangest musical on theand AL AAUKRAY "And a glass of white wine for the lady" Fringe.

Lucy Salter saves the caffeine tolerance 13th/14th, 20th/21 st, 27th/28th/29th August 11.15pm improves her posture all in just three days. Could lightherentertainment have a dark side too?

Box Office 8t Information: 0131 662 8740 Aug 10,12,14,17,19,21,24,26,28,30 22.15 (23.45) £5.00 (£4.00) 67

Musicals & Opera Hf MIGHTY & YEW TREEAPHRODITE THEATRE PRODUCTIONS 00600 Venue 48 - Bennington Resource Centre,200 Bennington Road CI6 ■TheGODSPELL Thispanto,smash hitLawrockandmusical brought rap, intoandtheThe '90's Magdeline features Prodigal Son' The the Prophets' Show'appeal . Withtoguest appearances by Lego's most sophisticated robots this show will all30 ages.

Aug 9-14 19.

(22.00) Aug 16-21 16.30 (19.00) £6.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 8+ ■rebellious WESTbeats, SIDEstreet STORY Thedance, ultimate tale of adolescence mixing revamped and style and unrivalled tones of modern day Divas.

Join us9-14on the16.West Side as£6.00 the (£5.00) conflict is taken to a new and unmissable place.

Aug 3 0 (19.00) Aug 16-21 19.30 (22.00) Suitable for ages 12+

THE FRINGE’S FAVOURITE MUSICAL IS BACK! JULIUS GREEN Q IAN LENAGAN PRESENT THE COUNTERPOINT THEATRE PRODUCTION OF

NATIONAL YOUTH MUSIC THEATRE 00©©0 Venue 37 - George Square Theatre, George Square Tickets 662 8740 Ml I THEwithRAGGED CHILD The award-winning NYMT returnsmusic for aand23rdstunning Fringe visit its internationally acclaimed production.

Evocative visual powerfully recreate Victorian London tale.

'N10effects OTHING SHORT£7.50 OF SENSATIONAL’ Sundaythrough Telegraphone child's moving Aug 19.00(21.15) Aug 11 -22 (not 16) 19.00 (21.15) £9.50 (£7.50) Suitable for ages 8+ NEPOTISM PRODUCTIONS 00©©0 Venue 186 - Dominion Cinema, 18 Newbattle Terrace Tickets 447 4771 P6 Outer ■Donizetti' LUCIAs opera, An audacious contemporary homage to Walter Scott' s novel and this kaleidescopic film about a beautiful young diva driven insane with by herelaborately conflict between love operatic and family loyalty combines breathtaking visuals Aug 19-26 18.15 (20.00)interwoven £4.00 (£3.00) and contemporary soundtrack.

NEWBURY YOUTH THEATRE 00©00 Venue 40 - The Quaker Meeting House,Victoria Terrace Tickets 220 6109 J11 ■stupidity, OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR Captures the spirit ofWWI its bravery, passion destruction.Company' Music-halls 1998 nostalgia poignancy this and satirical visit gives gainedlaughter Scotsmanand**** Blood16-21 and tobandages, songsshow. and tears.

Aug 18.30 (19.45) £5.00 (£4.00)Be moved!

Suitable for ages 12+ OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY OOOOO Venue 16 - Rocket Venue ©Theatre Arts Centre, 10 Davie Street Tickets 667 6666 LI3 PUMP BOYS & BLUE MOON MODERN DANCE An Evening of with American Theatre.The country musical, Pump Boys & Dinettes, combines modern11-13choreography an evening of unique American entertainment.

Aug 19.00 (21.00)to provide £5.00 (£3.50) OVATION PRODUCTIONS OO©©© Venue 41 - Hil Street Theatre, 19 Hil Street Tickets 226 6522 HI0 FOREVER PLAID Edinburgh Premiere of thisinclassic American musical.

Four guys meet in high school and start singing the style of the Four Aces and Crew Cuts. 1964 - 9th Feb, they land their first gig. On this day our storythe20-30 begins Aug 18.00 (19.15) £8.00 (£5.00) REXANA PRODUCTIONS ®0©©0 Venue 4 - C too, St Columba's by the Castle, Johnston Terrace Tickets 225 5105 K10 ■sinceWORDS ANDsophisticated MUSIC Classic Noel Coward revived forfeaturing the firstsome time of 1932.

Stylish, and laced with biting satire, Coward’s greatest songs from 'Mad About The Boy' to 'A Room With A View'.

The Aug ultimate 5-30 19.in50cool.

(21.15) £7.00 (£5.00) THE ROBERT SMYTH SCHOOL OOOOO Venue 152 - Augustine's, George IV Bridge Tickets 225 6575 K11 GODSPELL This young group of performers ' p repare the way of the Lord' in this fast-moving musical based upon the gospel according to St Matthew.

Presented in a new fashion,£3.00this(£2.00) energetic show is ideal for all the family.

Aug 9-14comic-strip 12.20 (13.30) ROYAL MUSIC Venue 4 - C too,HOLLOWAY St Columba’s by the Castle, JohnstonTHEATRE Terrace Tickets 225 5105 ©0©©O KI0 ■andSWEENEY TODD The Demon Barber ofrevenge.

Fleet Street.

AVictorian dark, dramatic vivid meditation on the nature of evil and Set in London toEdinburgh.

Sondheim's magnificent score, the greatest musical ever written returns to and grotesque.

Aug 5-30 Gothic 16.30 (18.30) £7.00 (£5.00) 68

'The Rocky Horror Shaw far the millennium1 Jack Tinker - Daily Mail FRINGE FIRST WINNER!

PLEA5AIMCE OVER THE ROAD AUG 5-3D, 1DPIVI [NOT 23rdJ □ 131 55G G55D

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Musicals & Opera ST MARKS IN CASTLE TERRACE 000©0 Venue 125 - St Mark's Unitarian Church, Castle Terrace J9 ★IonaST.andCOLUMBA S PLAYERS ’DOVE OF IONA’ Following its tour to Donegal, this haunting musical retells the epic life of St. Columba.

Aug 28,29 17.30 (18.45) £5.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 10+

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SAUCY JACK AND THE SPACE VIXENS 0O©©O Venue 33 - Pleasance,60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550 LI4 ■is back!

SAUCY JACK AND THE SPACE VIXENS Thecasts Fringe'combine s favourite musical Stars of the West End and original Edinburgh in this all-new production the Fringe First Award-winning intergalactic extravaganza.

Book5-12,15-19,22,24-26 early to avoidofdisappointment.

Aug 22.00(23.30) (23.30)£9.50 £9.00(£8.00) (£8.00) Aug 13,14,20,21,27-30 22.00 SHAKESPEARE 4 KIDZ THEATRE COMPANY OO©©© Venue 37 - George Square Theatre, George Square Tickets 662 8740 M11 ■mostROMEO AND JULIET Five star favourites4 Kidz from musical 1998 return as theinworld' s famous love story gets the Shakespeare treatment a family show that will make you laugh and make you cry.

Prior to National tour.

Preview 13.00 (15.00) Aug 17-30Aug13.1500 (15.00) £8.00 £3.00 (£6.00) Suitable for ages 8+ SMALL PLANET PRODUCTIONS 00©©0 Venue 90 - Graffiti,Corner Broughton and East London Streets Tickets 557 8330 GI3 ★real■people, H.R.H.realDidtime, Dianathisandchallenging Dodi die new, in vain?musicDoesaudioanyone?

Based on real life, visual,it! confronts the issues facing 11.us 4all5 (13.00) at the end£3.00of (£the1.5millennium.

Don't miss Aug 16-28 0) Suitable for ages 5+ SNUG 0Q©00 Venue 125 - St Mark's Unitarian Church, Castle Terrace J9 ■is aMUSICAL MAGIC Thiswooing show-stopping toe-tapping musical extravaganza must.

SNUG have been audiences for the last decade.

With 40 performers aged 7-70 thisold exciting, guarantee of delights and new.innovative group will Aug 13-15an17.evening 00 (19.00) £6.00 (£5.00) SPECTRUM YOUTH THEATRE COMPANY 000©0 Venue 152 - Augustine's, George IV Bridge Tickets 225 6575 K11 ★ FLOOD Pastnextandmillennium. future collide in this fantastic new musical bringing Noah' s story into the Performed by young people, with original songs, Flood24-28 is a must-see for all £5.00 the family. so much fun!6+ Aug 13.30 (14.30) (£3.00)Rainy days have never beenSuitable for ages STAGE 84 OOOOO Venue 93 - James Gil espie's High School, Lauderdale Street Tickets 0385 244 984 N8 ■flower MY seller FAIR into LADY Can Professor Higgins win his bet to change a common a ' d uchess' ?

Do not miss the award-winning Stage 84' s spectacular with a cast of 45 and live orchestra of this greatest musical10-14 of thepresentation 20th Century.

Aug 19.15(21.45) Aug 14 14.15 (16.45) £7.50 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 5+ TEMPO MUSICAL PRODUCTIONS 000©0 Venue 137 - Church Hil Theatre, Morningside Road 06 ■runCHESS Corruption, seduction and political intrigue!

Following a successful in January 1999,Tempo bring their exciting production of this highly acclaimed to Abba the Fringe.

Live band, singers and dancers. Lyrics by Tim Rice, musicmusical from30the(22.15) boys. (£7.50) Aug £9.00 Aug 23-28 28 14.319.0 (17.15) ZOOT. C. ©0©©O Venue 26 - Gilded Balloon at the Palladium, Broughton Place Tickets 226 2151 GH ■stageLITTLE SHOP OFconcepts HORRORS '...excellentcastproduction... rethinks how to musicals... staging are inspired... are all hugely talented...

Four stars.The t miss ZooT.C' back afterAug lastScotsman year' s17.sold001998. out Don' and£7.00 extended run. s funky hip-hop production Previews 6,7 (18.30) (£5.00) Aug 8-16,18-27 17.00 (18.30)00 (14.30) £9.00 (£7.00) Aug I 1, 14,18,21,22,25 Aug 28-30 15.30 (17.00) 13.£9.00 (£7.00)£9.00 (£7.00) Suitable for ages 6+ 69

ADELPHI WHISK(E)Y & HERBIE'S CHEESE 00©©0 Venue Mi- The Adelphi Tent, 3 Gloucester Lane Tickets 226 5138 G9 THE SENSORY SECRETS OF combine MALT WHISK(E)Y &theCHEESE Adelphi Distillery and Herbie of Edinburgh in a tasting of finest Scottish cheesessculptures and single cask Serena whiskies, setla Hey. in a quiet willow Over picturesque 18's only. garden, amongst Aug 9-Sept 3 (notfrom Sats) 18.30de(19.30) £20.00 wS=w ALLEN WRIGHT AWARD OOOOO @ Venue 2 - Fringe Club, Old Assembly Close Tickets 226 5138 J12 THE ALLEN WRIGHT DEBATE Do your star ratings match the reviewers' ?

Join Michael Billington, Mary Brennan and Robert Dawson-Scott in a stimulating mediaAward eventforchaired Professor Ian Brown to launch this year' s12Allen12.15(13.45) Wright young byjournalists.

Aug Free Tickets available fromFreeFringe Box Office ARCHITECTURE ON THE FRINGE 00©00 Venue 132 - Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland, Bakehouse Close, 146 Canongate KIS FLESHof contemporary AND STONEScottish - MINDS MEETINGS Illustrated discussions on the state Architecture, bya the excitingIdentity' projects highlighted inbesttheyoung exhibition 'Flesh and Stone -inspired Building Scottish .

Led by the talent.

Exhibition open daily (11.00 16.00).

Aug 11,13,18,20 17.30 (19.00) Free BODY AND SOUL HEALTH FAIR QO©©0 Venue 70 - Edinburgh Academy, 42 Henderson Row FIO ■MBSMIND BODY- presents SPIRITtheHEALTH FAIR Body & Soul -complementary Scotland's foremost bookshop very best local and national therapists, tarot readers, healers.

Free talks. Mini workshops.

Special guests.Vegan cafe.crystal Phone for full details.

Aug 21,22 11.00 (18.00) £2.00 (£1.50) DIANAto COOPER ONE DAY WORKSHOPS One of the top teachers £45 comes theforFringe.

Sat:Working With Your Angels.

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Aug 21,22 11.00 (18.00) £45.00 BRAHMA KUMARIS OQ©©0 Venue 175 - Brahma Kumaris Meditation Centre, 20 Polwarth Crescent Tickets 229 7220 MS CALMING DOWN Raja Yoga meditation, positive thinking, self-esteem talks/workshops/spiritual exhibition.

Experience the stabilitya clear of a peaceful mind inmind, a world of challenge, conflict and change.

By developing and connected re-discover your inner strength and beauty.

Aug 9-28 (not Suns) 14.30 (16.30) Free

CULTURE WARS OOQOO Venue 2 - Fringe Club, Old Assembly Close Tickets 226 5138 J12 CULTURE WARS AT EDINBURGH FESTIVALS 1999 An artistic magnet, Edinburgh provides an opportunity for creatives to take stock and reflect ofondebates the stateplacing of British cultureClub - is atit dumbing down orheart wisingof theup?festival.

A series the Fringe the intellectual ARTS THE inMILLENIUM - ACCESSIBILITY AND EXCELLENCE The newofAND approach thethese arts new tendsvalues to emphasise inclusiveness elitism theandpast.

Can coexistHowwith the this ideadebate ofover the excellence the promotion of high culture? does impact upon Edinburgh' s Festivals?

Aug 12 14.30 (16.00) Free (tickets from Fringe Box Office) PERFORMANCE TABOOS - CENSORSHIP, AND THE LIMITS ON ARTISTIC FREEDOM At Princess last year'RESTRAINT s Fringe,causeperformances which featured disrespectful references to Diana media-led criticism.The and meitself was tosimilarly controversial.

Can drama be challenging if itplay hasMyra to confine offending an audience?

Aug 13 14.30 (16.00) Free (tickets fromnotFringe Box Office) SHAKESPEARE DAY OF sDEBATE ANDa degree DISCUSSIONS performances of- AShakespeare' playsButrequire of interpretation toAllIn both suit contemporary circumstances. how far should the cinema and on debasements? stage are current productions updating intelligentgo? corruptions or patronising Aug 14 11.00 (12.30) Free (tickets from Fringe Box Office) OPEN FORUM FOR toCOMPANIES PERFORMING SHAKESPEARE AT FRINGE A chance exchange ideas and insights among those companies performing Shakespeare at this year' s Fringe.

Aug 14 13.30 (14.30) Free (register at Fringe Club from early August) HOWTO SHAKESPEARE POPULAR? wouldsuch youasengage novices suchMAKE as Love schoolchildren in Shakespeare' s work?How Dothefilms Shakespeare helpFreeor(register hinder the appreciation playwright.

Aug 14 16.1in5 (17.30) at Fringe Club fromof early August) SHAKESPEARE -A MAN OF HISTIME ORAthatMAN OF ALLcreated TIME? American criticpersonality.

Harold Bloom has recentlydetractors argued Shakespeare the modern Bloom' s academic suggest Shakespeare' greatness is over-stated and hismanplaysofdated.

What is the real significance ofs this recentlyFree voted(tickets millenium?

Augplaywright, 14 16.15 (17.30) fromtheFringe Box Office) CULTURAL DIVERSITY ANDIs there SCOTLAND will parochialism be the impactin of Scottish devolution on the arts? a danger ofWhat narrow celebrating a strictly Scottish cultural agenda and how will this affect the internationalism of all theFreeEdinburgh festivals?

Aug 15 14.30 (16.00) (tickets from Fringe Box Office)

EDINBURGH FESTIVAL VOLUNTARY GUIDES ASSOCIATION oo©©o Venue 165 - Cannonball House, Castle Hil , Royal Mile JIO ■down EDINBURGH FESTIVAL VOLUNTARY GUIDES Free daily walksand Royal Mile.

Castle (Cannonball House) to Holyrood Palace.

10am 2pmolddaily.town.

Sunday 2pmin 51only.

Expert voluntary guides relate history and facts of the year.

Aug 9-Sept 410Now Tours last stapproximately Tours start at min intervals between 10.2 hours 00 & 11.Free 00 and between 14.00 & 15.00 CALEDON. CULTURE AND LANGUAGE (Sundays between 14.00 & 15.

0 0 only).

Suitable for ages 5+ j EDUCATION CENTRE OOOOO Venue 141 - Caledon, Culture & Language Educ.Ctr, 32 Gil espie Rd, Colinton Tix 441 5592 PI Outer EDINBURGH INTERFAITH ASSOCIATION OOQOO ■intercultural THE CALEDON FESTIVAL Caledonmusic, presents an storytelling, afternoon ofcraft and Venue 187 - St Giles' Cathedral, High Street, Royal Mile J12 entertainment and education: dance, INTERFAITH TIMEreligious FOR traditions RESTANDwhoSILENCE Youtogether are invited tosilence. join food stalls,carving drama, Japanese lessons,Tea Ceremony, workshops onforIkebana and a■group from different are meeting for Thai fruit (by KruaThai Cookery School).

Hands on fun everyone. for those silent reflection meditation from the various traditions will Aug 29 13.00(18.00) £ 1.00 (£0.50 C) Suitable for ages 7+ Suggestions be available for whoFree wish orthem.

Aug 16-20 17.

3 0 (18.30) CHHI40 -YOGA MEDITATION CENTRE Venue The QuakerAND Meeting House, Victoria Terrace Tickets 220 6109 OOQOOj 11 FESTIVAL REVUE ■Savita.

HEALING SOUNDS MANTRA CHANTING WORKSHOP with Venue 52 - Ross Theatre and Princes Street Gardens., Princes Street Gardens ©O©©©JIO Awaken yourself with a magical journey Athrough ancient Sounds ofincludes ■in the FESTIVAL REVUEhundreds Becomeofpart the largest liveappearing arts broadcast partys Mantra Chanting.

Hindu, Buddhist and Tibetan. guided workshop that world.

Preview live ofcovering performances at this year' breathing techniques and visualisation.

A healing, meditative experience.

Festival as well as video presentations every conceivable art form.

Beginners welcome suitable for children.

Aug 16,18,20,21 09.15(11.00) £4.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 9+ Aug Food,7-30 drink 12.and00 performances (midnight) Freeall day every day.

Venue 46 - The Salisbury Centre, 2 Salisbury Road Tickets 667 5438 PI4 ■ HEALING - MANTRA FRINGE 00000J12 Aug 17,20 19.0SOUNDS 0 (22.00) £6.00 (£5.00) CHANTING WORKSHOP Venue 2 - FringeAGM Club, Old Assembly Close Tickets 226 5138 FRINGE GENERAL The s directors Want to take home a souvenir? review theANNUAL last ideas 12 months, standperformers. forMEETING re-election and Fringe hear theSociety' opinions, T-shirts, posters & other goodies at the Fringe shop comments and of Fringe Call 0131 226 5257 for Society membership information.

Light buffet served.

180 High Street, Royal Mile Aug 21 11.00 (14.00) Free

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FRINGE CLUB ©Q©©0 Venue 2 - Fringe Club, Old Assembly Close Tickets 226 5138 J12 THE FRINGE CLUB Method behind the madness.

Fringe performers pick the brains of experts, attend our best ever range of workshops & masterclasses, & check brand new Red Bull Recharge Room at I a Parliament Square toAug chill2-29outinto10.andthe00check (18.00)reviews.

Free for Fringe performers DRAMA TRAININGtoCONFERENCE oneat some day trade provide athe unique opportunity find out what' s onThis theshow top will schools country.

Quizleaflets. representatives on what toofferexpect fromoftheir training, or justin grab loads more Aug 11 12.00 (20.00) Free FRINGE GRAD SCHOOL Where will the Fringe lead? Talk to theandexperts about touring abroad, sponsorship, and safety forandyour nextgaining show.details.

Contact thecontractual Fringe Officenegotiations in August for fullhealth programme registration Aug 23-29 10.00 (18.00) Free for Fringe performers FRINGE SUNDAY 00©00 Venue 10 - Holyrood Park,foot of Royal Mile Info 226 5257 KI6 ■all FRINGE SUNDAY The highlightmusic, of thecomedy, Fringe! circus Whereandelsetheatre. can you get it hundreds of Fringe performers, Non-stopsentertainment, be amazed.

The Place. Freegreat food and fresh air. Laze, graze and Aug Park' 15 I 1.the00 (17.00) Suitable for ages 5+ THE HOUSE OF BACCHUS 000©0 Venue 154 - Edinburgh Academicals Football Club, Portgower PI, off Raeburn PI Tix 225 5007 E8 ■ THE FESTIVAL HAS LEFT THE BUILDING...

Say Goodbye to friends :. old and new, inendtheofonly way Edinburgh knows how.

Mingle with the stars celebrate the the Festival with live bands, comedians and 100ft bar. and , Aug 27 12.00 (02.00) £ 15.00 (£ 12.00) SINDEPENDENTTHEATRE COUNCIL 00©00 Venue 2 - Fringe Club, Old Assembly Close Tickets 226 5138 J12 TEN toSTEPS TOyour STARTING A THEATRE COMPANY Thesuccess essential >I guide running own company.

ITC reveals the secret of and navigates the management maze.Employing Tips on Company Policy, LegalFundraising Structures,& Finance, Marketing & Publicity, People, Contracts, i Sponsorship.

Ideas and notes to take away.

Aug 19 14.00 (16.00) Aug (12.00)ClubFreefrom early Aug Register20 at10.the00 Fringe

Talks & Events INTERNATIONAL C.D & RECORD FAIR 00©©0 Venue 39 - Crowne Plaza Hotel, 80 High Street Tickets 220 4349 K13 ■of 6TH INTERNATIONALCD AND RECORD FAIR Massive selection records/CDs/memorabilia, covering music, folk, blues, classical, rock, 50s/60s/70s/80s, jazz, indieplenty etc. Meet the toptoo.dealers raritieslovers. and collectors items and find of bargains A mustwithformany all music Aug 20 11.

0 0 (19.00) £1.50 (£1.00) Aug (19.00) Aug 2122 10.10.0000 (17.00) NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF SCOTLAND 00©©0 Venue 43 - Royal Museum and Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street Tickets 247 4219 K12 ■Indian INDIA WEEK A Day.These week long events celebration of IndiantheCulture, beginning on Independence complement of Souvenirs exhibition at the Royalprogramme Museum and includes music,venue. dance,History film, crafts displays and food.

Complete details from the Aug 15-22 various times and prices OUTRAGEOUS SCRIPTS 0O©©O Venue 21 - Roman Eagle Lodge, 2 Johnston Terrace Tickets 226 7207 KI0 HOWTO BE SUCCESSFULLY MAD What is madness?

Why do we gocanmad?

Adone. roughOfsketch of our minds' workings, why they sometimes fail, and what be interest to everyone who wants to know more about themselves.

Aug Aug 6-22 23-29 10.11.1515(11.15) (12.15) £6.00 (£4.50) ROYAL NATIONAL THEATRE STUDIO 00©00 Venue 2 - Fringe Club, Old Assembly Close Tickets 226 5138 J12 ROYAL NATIONAL THEATRE STUDIO A programme of workshops and masterclasses for theatre practitioners, led by a team from the Studio.

Additional Fringe Office from August.

Aug 16-21 information 10.00 (18.00)available Free forfromFringetheperformers SCOTTISH POETRY LIBRARY OOOOO Venue 31 - St Cecilia's Hall, cnr Niddry Street & Cowgate K13 MAGYARS AND MAKARS The Scottish Poetry Library' s annual international Poetry event presents Gyoko Ferencz and Zsuzsa Rakovsky, distinguished poetsSzirtes. from Hungary, poems with translator and andwhosong.readAll their welcome.

Augpoet 13 15.George 00 (17.00) £6.00Music(£3.50) STRANGE COMPANY 00©©0 Venue 145 - Reality X, 54 Broughton Street G13 THE MACHINIMA SHOWCASE Robert Rodriguez, Sam Raimi, Quentin Tarantino low-budget film-makers low-budget is hitting computer animation, through technologyall.Lovecraft-inspired of Now computer gamesEschaton: like Quake.

See thehere. latest,9-Sept including the the award-winning Nightfall, Aug 4 (not Suns) 16.00 (17.00) Free TRAQUAIR FAIR ©OOOO Venue 118 -Traquair House, Innerleithen, Peeblesshire Tickets 01896 830323 PIS Outer ■Scotland' TRAQUAIR FAIR Thehouse. legendary fair settheatre, in the music, magicalchildren' groundss of s oldest inhabited Featuring entertainments, craftsmobile and complementary medicine.

Actsandinclude the world' sDogs. smallest cinema, the Splott Brothers musicCinerama from the Old Blind Aug 7,8 11.00 (18.00) £10.00 (£6.00) £9.00 (£5.00) in advance Suitable for ages 5+ WILDWOOD BOOKS OO©©© Venue 29 -Wildwood Books, 16 High Street Tickets 557 4888 KI3 ■andMIND BODY SPIRIT FESTIVAL Featuring ' T his Being Human' ,festival. stories poems of Rumi by storyteller Duncan Mackintosh in a mini MBS Tarot, clairvoyance.

Reiki, massage, workshops,at venue. book readings by famous authors and Harp recitals.

AugCeltic 8-30available 09.00from (22.00)venueDaily Prices programmes vary Tickets THE WITCHERY TOURS OO©©© Venue 110 - The Witchery Restaurant (outside), 352 Castlehil , Royal Mile Tickets 225 6745 J10 THE WITCHERY GHOST ANDwithGORE TOUR A light-hearted old town walking tourplague whichandblends history andbyghosts with gore. witchcraft, bodysnatching arehumour enhanced guaranteed ghastlyTales of appearances in the form of ' j umper ooters' .

Aug 12-15,19-22,26-29, Sept 2-4 16.00 (17.30) £7.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages I 2+

Theatre AA@GIGGLESWICK OOO©© Venue 28 - Greyfriars Kirk House, Candlemaker Row Tickets 225 3626 Kl I ★that'WORLD DRAMA:THE POWER OF SEVEN Famous Yorkshire School s toured Scandinavia, Australia, USA brings fast, funny, physical History of World Dramaseven

by Paultheatrical Nimmoforms, (work at West Yorkshire Playhouse, RSC): seven stories, Aug 24-30 18.55 (20.35) £5.00 (£3.00)seven actors - seven days...

Suitable for ages 10+ AABACUS 0O©©O Venue 78 - The Ark, 3 Semple Street Tickets 229 7733 K8 ★FRANK 20TH SINATRA CENTURY&LEGENDS:THE LIVES, LOVES & MUSIC OFdirt.

JUDY GARLAND The heights, the depths, the Frank & Judy' s intimateViner. details,Foodwithavailable. many of their songs performed live by Jack Samantha AugJaffe 5-28&(not Fri) 15.19.4350 (17.00) £6.50 (£5.50) Aug 5-28 (not Fri) (20.45) Aug 6,13,20 14.45 (16.00) AAH, ENTERTAINING THEATRE ©O©©© Venue 41 - Hil Street Theatre, 19 Hil Street Tickets 226 6522 H10 ★about ANcomedy?'

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Aug 7-9 00.10(01.10) £3.50 Aug 10-30 (not 19) 00.10(01.10) £5.50 (£4.50) ABOUTFACETHEATRE COMPANY ®Q©©0 Venue 41 - Hil Street Theatre, 19 Hil Street Tickets 226 6522 H10 ★is in■ celluloid EXILEDlimbo.To UK premiere before international tour!

Marlene, the dead diva, free her ghostly self she meddles with women' s lives.

AboutFace createsDietrich! a highly visual experience that touches and tickles the emotions.Totally Previews Aug 9-30 Aug (not 7,819) 15.20(16.15) 15.20(16.15) £3.00 £6.50 (£5.00) Collective Unconscious Half of'Vkat You See

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ACTIVATED IMAGE ©o©oo Venue 23 - Chaplaincy Centre, I Bristo Square Tickets 662 8882 LI2 ★gameshow DREAM.2000 ' L adies and gentlemen, we can see dreams...'

A television 60 minutes from the millennium.

Five people' s dreams are broadcast around the world asmultimedia 2000 approaches. Each The dreamTimes.tells a story. Last year's Tempest Aug 7-17'dynamic 22.30 (23.30) £6.00performance' (£4.00) ACX THEATRE 00©00 Venue 21 - Roman Eagle Lodge, 2 Johnston Terrace Tickets 226 7207 K10 ★adaptation ■ THE ofMONKEY' S PAW..THE STORY STARTS AGAIN Original classicaW.W.Jacobs' chiller. Change London 'FATE', dreams become reality, reality the becomes 'NIGHTMARE' Fringeskillfully May 1999. 'directed Accomplished ensemble playing' Scotsman,. Previewed 'excellent production, by Michele Gutteridge' Stage.

Aug 15-21 midnight (00.45) £5.00 (£4.00) AFTERTHOUGHT PRODUCTIONS ®0©©O Venue 41 - Hil Street Theatre, 19 Hil Street Tickets 226 6522 HI0 ★scandalously FANNY HILL Forbidden... prosecuted... suppressed...

Mr Cleland' s indecent eighteenth-century gallop through the decadent bawdy-houses of Hogarth' s London.

A lustyof late-night unlacesclassic.

ThomasnakedEverchild' s Beware audacious adaptation this satiricalensemble clandestine Stark truth nudity!

Preview (01.15) Aug 8-30Aug (not7 19)23.4523.45 (01.15)£4.00£7.00 (£5.00) AMERICAN DREAM PRODUCTIONS ®0©©0 Venue 21 - Roman Eagle Lodge, 2 Johnston Terrace Tickets 226 7207 KI0 ★as aREFUGEES Stephanie Satie' s critically-acclaimed solo play set in an English Second Moving.

Hilarious. their lives in Language America. 'classroom.

Herflows portraits ring with weightNew andimmigrants authority' Losreinventing Angeles Times.6-22 'Remarkably seamlessly' Variety.

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Aug. 8-30 (not 16.23) ^ m Dawson Nicholi'dark comedy about a ' ' mental patient who thinks he might be the master of horror fictilj ".. wil give anyone unfamiliar with| \ Poe's writings a thrilling i, introduction." ^ !, The West Australian

challenging the concepts beyond good and evil V TjJw "a radical show for a daring poet" (based on lautremont's poem) * Hot for the faint-hearted. We dare you to come. original soundtrack by Steven Severin / ,

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Theatre AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL THEATRE FESTIVAL oo©©o Venue 137 - Church Hil Theatre, Morningside Road 06 ■of the KALEIDOSCOPE ' S hort Attention-Span Theatre' .

An award winning collage best scenes and songs from the American stage plus captivating original pantomimes.This showforpromises to please even the most finicky audience member everyone.

Aug 1617 -18.12.something 1155 (19.45) £5.00 (£3.00) Aug (13.45) Aug 14.15 (15.45) Aug 2018 22.15 (23.45) QUILTERS ' B reathtaking and Tender' ...Through music andsetting dance,the Quilters, a patchwork ofquilt'scenes, celebrates American pioneer women frontier.

The ' l egacy depicts their struggle for survival, deepening friendships, and the strength of(23.45) the human Aug 1819 22.15 £5.00spirit. (£3.00) Aug 14.15(15.45) Aug 20 12.

1 5 (13.45) Aug 21 20.15 (21.45) AN AMERICAN ArthurisMiller himself callsAmerican it a vaudeville...where contiguity sublimeCLOCK and ridiculous acceptable.The Clock depicts not onlyspirit. theof tragedy ofThe Great Depression, but also the celebration of the human Aug 16 10.

1 5 (11.45) £5.00 (£3.00) Aug 17 20.15 (21.45) Aug (23.45) Aug 2119 22.15 14.15(15.45) ■masters,Truffeldina THE SERVANTcauses OF TWOpairs MASTERS Trying tomany secretly two of lovers to facefights merryservemix-ups, unrelenting parents, mistakentwoidentities, andeffects. sword in Commedia style, aAug live 16'orchestra' accompanies with sound 20.15 (21.45) £5.00 (£3.00) Aug 17 14.15(15.45) Aug Aug 1819 16.15(17.45) 10.15(11.45) Venue 34 - The Famous Grouse House, 5 Chambers Street Tickets 220 5606 KI2 THEtheDIVINERS An ex-preacher arrives in Indiana whereBuddy he becomes friends with Laymans.The town wants a preacher and young Layman needs aAug friend16,22to help sort through a trauma which has left him deeply disturbed.

12.15him(13.45) £5.00 (£3.00) Aug 18 14.15(15.45) Aug 20 10.15 (11.45) WE IN NEWflyersHAVEN of novelmissions.

'Catch 22'Aware satirises militaryBOMBED machine sending on Author bogus of thethe Sunday Times corruption, the characters rebeloffagainst bothbombing the bureaucracy of the airforce and of the script itself.

Aug 16,22 14.15 (15.45) £5.00 (£3.00) I The Scotsman MasterfulI” Aug Aug 2018 10.15(11.45) 12.15 (13.45) ^“Hilarious” SARAFINA! Thesong, storydance aboutandlifetheunder apartheid forwho blackinspires studentsherin Soweto.Through storyagainst of Sarafina The Guardian classmates with her sense of community the government.

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1 5 (11.45) £5.00 (£3.00) Aug Aug 2018 12.15(13.45) 14.15 (15.45) THE YELLOW bycelebrating David Sarrtheis alovedynamic, true drama based on his young son' s oflifehope, withBOAT AIDSchange This drama will your life forever.and power of a child's heart.

Aug 15,21 14.15(15.45) £5.00 (£3.00) Aug 15 (11.45) Aug 1719 10.12.15(13.45) ★ AND I from WHISPER 'SOUTH’ In honour Ellen of Elvis and sother heroes, collection American playsthis 'narratives Graceland'from and the 'Asleep onnovelist theSouth Wind'Patincludes , songs, stories,Byron' dance,one-act poetry, and Southern Conroy.

Aug 15,21 10.15 (11.45) £5.00 (£3.00) Aug Aug 1719 12.15(13.45) 14.15(15.45) oo©oo A MINIMIS INCIPE 6-15 AUGUST not 8th Venue 152 - Augustine's, George IV Bridge Tickets 225 6575 ASSEMBLfROOMSil Opm ■thePOND LIFE by Richard Cameron.

Absorbing, funny and moving, dip into murky depths of tosexual discovery in ruralof Yorkshire.

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19.00 (20.10) £3.00 (£2.00) Suitable for ages 10+ 73

Theatre AMSTERDAM IN PLAYERS 000©0 Venue 81 - The Garage Theatre, Grindlay Court Centre, Grindlay Street Tickets 221 9009 K9 ★ DR.theHAIRY Romantic providespoignant the perfect opportunity taste comfortand ofnarrative sex indisappointment thiscombine funny andto present often musicalportrayal revue. to Songs, sketches a humorous ofAugour22-30 search21.00 for love.

(22.15) £5.00 (£4.00) THE AMSTERDAM PARADE PRESENTS OO©©0 Venue 90 - Graffiti, Corner Broughton and East London Streets Tickets 557 8330 GI3 ■ THEpresents AMSTERDAM PARADE BackDestine in town!

Winner of the(see FringealsoFirst Award two 5* performances: Tango and Bingo!

Danceplace & Physical theatre turbulentFountain shows which take in theatre tentssection). decoratedExperience by the Fabulous Bar. will ■happy BINGO! Herald Angel Winner 1998!

De Gebroeders Flint invites you to get and winkeep lots flying? of money and glittering prizes.you'Canve you resist theThetemptation asAugbanknotes ' A show like no other ever seen' Herald.

10-14,17-21,24-28 Aug 15,22,29 15.00 (17.15)19.30 (21.45) £8.00 (£6.00) ANCIANOS PRODUCTIONS 00©00 Venue 125 - St Mark's Unitarian Church, Castle Terrace J9 ★lifeSAMUEL ZUCKERMAN' S WARHORSE Reality and fantasy in one' s are necessary, when compared carrying thewithhopes five generations.

But areespecially men's Fordreams sofuncertainties.

Beingthen, surewhat is17.impossible. example, the tailor andlife'the traveller.

Aug 9-12 4 0 (18.40) £6.00 (£4.00) Aug 16-21 20.20 (21.20) ANGLO-FRENCH THEATRE PROJECT OO©©© Venue 81 -The Garage Theatre, Grindlay Court Centre, Grindlay Street Tickets 221 9009 K9 ■returns THE with TAMING OF THE SHREW Fresh from its Paris season, the Project its silver-screen oftomarriage markets, dupedof the parents, amorous sugar-daddies.

Mis enuniverse musique the vibrant rhythms 1930s.

'Previews Fast and furious Shakespeare' Time Out. Aug 8,10 14.45 (16.15) 14.£3.5045 (16.15) (£3.00) £5.00 (£3.50)Suitable for ages 10+ Aug 12,14,17,19,21,24,26,28,30

■ LA perverted DOUBLEgames INCONSTANCE (INloved-up FRENCH) Victimisation of thegirls weak, of a degenerate Jamesnow Bond makes thistoanall.electric reworking ofFrance Marivaux' s raresociety Frenchandclassic, truly accessible ' W ildly energetic' Today.

Previews Aug 9,11 14.45(16.15)14.4£3.50 (£3.00)£5.00 (£3.50) Suitable for ages 12+ Aug 13,15,18,20,22,25,27,29 5 (16.15) ANIMA PRODUCTIONS 00©©0 Venue 28 - Greyfriars Kirk House, Candlemaker Row Tickets 225 3626 Kl I METAMORPHOSIS Berkoffs powerful adaptation of Kafka' s compelling story.

A disturbing portrayal of human values crumbling in the face of pressures posed by everyday existence.body Physical theatre and stark imagery taken as far as the will allow.

Aughuman 17-22 imagination 21.10 (22.40)and£5.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 13+ AI THEATRE PRODUCTIONS 00©©0 Venue 123 - Rocket Venue @ South Bridge Resource Ctr, Infirmary Street Tickets 558 9991 KI3 UNDER MILK WOOD ' I n a production as clear as a mountain stream a natural stage confidence imbues thesad diverse characterisation achieved byEvening the cast in Thomas' witty, bawdy and tale' Charles Hutchison, Yorkshire Press.

Not to(not be missed. blind/partially Aug 16-28 22) 14.Suitable 10 (15.25)for£5.00 (£4.00) sighted people.

Suitable for ages 13+ THE AQUEOUS SUMMER COMPANY 00©00 Venue 108 - Merchiston Castle School Theatre, 294 Colinton Rd Tix 0403 167 807 PI Outer ★an WAKE UP, JIMMY This new play, at Colinton, is about identity.

Jimmy, actor, is confused.

In an enlightening moment allpeople' hisaspiring doubts peellikeoffevery like soyoung manyman, masks.This psychological comedy explores s personae.

Aug 14-18 (not 15) 19.

0 0 (20.30) £3.00 (£1.00) Aug 18 15.30 (17.00) Suitable for ages 12+ ARKLE THEATRE COMPANY 00©00 Venue 114 - Theatre East End, St Paul's and St George's Church,York PI. Tickets 558 9800 H13 ■sibling MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Love attesting, dodgy arresting, detesting,s battle goodies, andandnight watchman baddies.outSeeon Beatrice and Benedick' ofclassic thebaddies sexes discover who comes top.

One of Bill' s best in a central venue.

Aug 16-21 19.45 (22.15) £7.50 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 10+

Come on holiday to iMEXICO! with Richard Vranch (Comedy Store Players, Whose Line is it Anyway?)

"He's funny" The Times Gilded Balloon 5.45 pm 6 - 30 August Venue 38 Box Office 0131 226 2151 |% L2 ■ m Ef |y S’

\ TENNESSEE / WILLIAMS ALCCT PLATS Wit la Live directed toy BTattoEin Osgood A PERFECT mim CIVEN BY A PARROT WK THE LADY OF LARKSPUR LOTION TALK TO ME LIKE THE RAIN THELONGSTAYCUTSHORT "Great linsemble Acting" - G.L.R. fUpQiyi Main Theatre: 6th-30th Aug, 5.15 Box Office 0131 226 2151

13th-30th ©dim© timpara August MAIN THEATRE (not 21st) 7pm Box Office: 0131 226 2151 SWEENEY & STEEN,. ’s Wake Aug • Backstage 1 5.15pm ersary Show 21stAug- Main Theatre 7pm

AROUSAL THEATRE COMPANY (DO©©© Venue 47 -The Cafe Royal, l7West Register Street Tickets 556 2549 112 Amodern LOVEloveSTORY 'A See FringethisHit'absorbingly What's On.A darkly compelling portrayalandof and sex. comic tale of sexual obsession lies and you' ll think16.30twice(17.35) about ever saying 'I love you' again. 'Brilliant' Time Out. Preview ADOLF GUY AMASTERSON presentsperformance Pip Utton'and s extraordinary invocation Aug 6-30Aug16.350 (17.35) £5.00 Free a third Festival. chillinglysearing, accurate an amazingAdolf coup de for theatre finale... ' t errifying, transfixing... totally absorbing. reaffirms need and worth of political *****' The Scotsman.

ART-VIC ANGLO RUSSIAN THEATRE 00©00 the 0theatre (12.50)£9.00 £8.00(£8.00) (£7.00) Venue 28 - Greyfriars Kirk House, Candlemaker Row Tickets 225 3626 Kl I Aug Aug 6-12,15-19,23-26,30 13,14,20-22,27-29 11.11.303(12.50) ■ THEdifferent HIDDEN SENSE OF HAMLET explores interpretations of Hamlet ★ OFTEN I FIND IsAM NAKEDjourney A deliciously raw, darkof social and from culture Presented by outstanding international Anglo witty accountpolitics of onein THAT woman' passionate into the arena Russian Theatre, whichHexperiences. touredFringe extensively throughout the former USSR, Europe, and sexual the 90s. ' . ..stylish, sexy, very funny and a little bit naughty...'

UK, Africa and USA.' eroic Endeavour' award from Scottish Television.

Sydney Morning Herald. 17.55 (19.00) £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 9-15 15.35 (17.05) £7.50 (£6.00) Aug Aug 6-12,15-19,23-26,30 13,14,20-22,27-29 17.55 (19.00) £9.00 (£8.00) ★buried ■ Aalive.

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Some people think Gogol was In English Literature, bad asdoes: this is that ★ ■ FARCES - FANTASIA Brought to youtheatre by acclaimed of Lear, and Shakespeare can only the get only awaysuffering with it asasGogol director Victor Kramer, thisof isimages truly universal fromattempts anSNOWSHOW enchanting through and grotesque. company.

A surreal string unfolds as our hero to... fly anewkite.

Aug 9-15comedy 22.30 (23.15) £6.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 12+ Aug 6-12,16-19,23-26,30 16.

4 5 (17.45) £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 13,14,20-22,27-29 16.45 (17.45) £9.00 (£8.00) Suitable for ages 8+ THE OBSERVER ASSEMBLY ©O©©© ★ BERKOFF'S WOMEN GUY MASTERSON presents Linda Marlowe in a Venue 3 - Assembly Rooms, 54 George Street Tickets 226 2428 111 celebration of 25 years collaboration with Stephen Berkoff. From tenderest love-making to coarsest talk,ofView, painful vulnerability to bloody stabbing... plus Afestival. reputation for excellence andworld-class a spirit ofdrama, fun. Experience theto soak full flavour premiere: From MysexPoint directed

by Josie Lawrence.

Side-splitting comedy, 'theroof. place'Phone upbrochure theof the world Aug 6-12,15-19,23-26,30 13.

1 5 (14.40) £8.00 (£7.00) scene.

Catch the gossip, shows and stars under one for Aug 13,14,20-22,27-29 13.15 (14.40) £9.00 (£8.00) on 09065 151 551, calls cost £1.50 p/m. ★ LAST TRAIN TO NIBROC - THEin this JOURNEY COMPANY Love TRIANGLE - aLOOKING FOR THE TALLYMAN An adult Hansel triumphs the Kentucky hit by Fringe and Gretel, on quest to exorcise the secrets which haunt and disturb Favourite onArlene Hutton.

'Phomefront erfectly captures aOff-Broadway slice ofeasily small-town-life-gone-by’ them, making a chilling discovery in the garden shed... ' s tunning' The Guardian Backstage. ' F unny, endearing' Time Out NY. ' Y ou could enjoy another few 'Goldilocks with Teeth' Festival18.4Times. hours6-12,15-19,23-26,30 of this' NY Times. 16.15 (17.35) £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 0 (19.35)£9.00 £8.00(£8.00) (£7.00) Aug Aug 7-12,15-19,23-26,30 13,14,20-22,27-29 18.40 (19.35) Aug 13,14,20-22,27-29 16.15 (17.35) £9.00 (£8.00) ★ THE JUNKYARD GANG WITH MARSHA HUNT From theofpowerful ★ THE MAN WHO COMMITTED THOUGHT Thought... how dangerous and astonishing book,The Junkyard, Marsha Hunt introduces inmates isRSC/Complicite it? What happensactor,whenPatrice thinking becomesexplores an act oftheincredible Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, who have stories to tell.

Of addiction, of love, of hope.

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African 'Aug I finished the book shattered14.and grateful'£8.50 Roddy(£7.50) Doyle. lawyer6-12,15-19,23-26,30 who dares to think. A13.must-see for£8.00 the sentient.

7-12,15-19,23-26,30 5 5 (15.55) Aug 2 0 (14.35) (£7.00) Aug 13,14,20-22,27-29 14.55 (15.55) £9.50 (£8.50) Aug 13,14,20-22,27-29 13.20 (14.35) £9.00 (£8.00) ★ BARE GUY'BMASTERSON presents Fraser'culture.Two s incrediblyactors, clever,thirty incisive, award-winning are', exposing the coretaleToa of ofKiwi characters, an hilarious, sexy, beautiful intersecting lives.

If you didn' t know New Zealand before, 13.you00will(14.20) now...£8.00 (£7.00) Aug Aug 6-12,15-19,23-26,30 13,14,20-22,27-29 13.00 (14.20) £9.00 (£8.00) ★1974NIXON' S became NIXONtheHilarious, rivetingtovoyeurism.The eveningAmerican of Augustactors 7, - Nixonwinning only president resign - so far.Top inAug an 6-12,15-19,23-26,30 award performance.

0 (16.30)£9.00 £8.00(£8.00) (£7.00) Aug 13,14,20-22,27-29 15.15.000(16.30) MAINSTREAM BY SUSPECT CULTURE Two people in the them breakfast barneither' of a small beach frontwhat hotel.'TSomething happenedmeetbetween last night s sure precisely he most adventurous in-tune-withthe-times theatre company in Britain' The0 (18.20) Times. £8.50 (£7.50) Aug Aug 6-8,10-12,15,17-19,24-26,30 13,14,20-22,27-29 16.50 (18.20)16.5£9.50 (£8.50) ★ BOX THE PONY An inspirational, semi-autobiographical abouttold the life of Aboriginal actor, singer and potential champion boxerandLeahstory Purcell, through song, danceand andvery spirited story-telling.

Astounding moving,' ... raw, cheeky, celebratory funny' Sydney Morning Herald.

Aug 6-8,10-12,15,17-19 22.15 (23.15) £9.00 (£8.00) Aug 13,14,20-22 22.15(21.30) (23.15) 10.(£8.00) 00 (£9.00) Aug £9.00£(£9.00) Aug 24-26,30 27-29 20.3020.30(21.30) £10.00 ★ Australia' LYREBIRD:TALES OFSirHELPMANN Welcome the asbackstage ofcolourful stheknight errant, Robert Helpmann, and atonight witty andworld as great man' s life, ' . .fantastic and fantastical... spectacularly entertaining' The Sunday Telegraph14.'1...a5 (15.45) triumph'£8.50 Sydney(£7.50) Morning Herald.

Aug 10-12,15-19,23,24,26,30 Aug 13,14,20-22,27-29 14.15 (15.45) £9.50 (£8.50) THINK EVIL OFthisUS:year!

MY Carry LIFE WITH WILLIAMS Only UK NO performances On starKENNETH anatomized, laid bare: how proctologist' s nightmare Williams invaded the lifeDavid of aBenson Birmingham schoolboy.

Fringe First ' 9 6. ' B rilliant' Daily Mail.

Aug (13.30) £9.00 (£8.00) Aug 2425 12.14.1050 (15.45) THE BEDSIT In a pokey bedsit a retired his fatedirected' in Paul sfierce dramatic, cleverlyLondon 'Stunning'gunman Time awaits Out 'vaividly TLS 'sSellar' harp,Players. and clever' Thecrafted Timesthiller. 'an innovative playwright... brilliant gift' Plays and Aug 7-12,15-19,23-26,30 0 (13.00)£9.00 £8.00(£8.00) (£7.00) Aug 13,14,20-22,27-29 11.11.505(13.00) 75

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THE OBSERVER COOKING WITHASSEMBLY ELVIS PRESENTS ®o©©o III Venue 3 - Assembly Rooms, 54 George Street Tickets 226 2428 COOKING WITH ELVIS

by Lee Hall.

Antoamateur Elvis impersonator is paralysed in a car crash.

His daughter tries replace him with cooking; hisman,wifewithwithhilarious sex. Unfortunately both try out their talents on the same BARE AND RAGGED THEATRE 00©00 and disturbingtheyconsequences.

Aug 6-8,10-12,15,17-19,23,25,26,30 Venue 123 - Rocket Venue @ South Bridge Resource Ctr, Infirmary Street Tickets 558 9991 Kl 3 Aug 13,14,20-22,27-29 16.30 (18.15) 16.£ 10.3000(18.15) (£9.00)£9.00 (£8.00) ■presents TITUSa society ANDRONICUS Shakespeare' s first and rarely performed tragedy at war withforitself.

Revenge is the causepacked and bloody mayhem result.The Fringe is ripe a revival of this ' r arity' with energy and AXIS THEATRE O0©OO the unrelenting Venue 90 - Graffiti,Corner Broughton and East London Streets Tickets 557 8330 GI3 Aug 16-21 cruelty.

15.30 (17.10) £6.00 (£5.00) DEATH AND THE MAIDEN by Ariel Dorfman.

Axis Theatre return to Cafe THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAYOscarThisWilde' is thes fifth consecutive year that Graffiti from with their dynamic portrayaldeadly of a woman' confrontation with the adaptation hascontinually appeared at the fullFringe. tragedy ofstrongly decadence and this demon her past.

Dictatorship, emotions brutal and revenge are graphically corruption attracts houses so early booking is advised. challenged in this compelling production.

Aug 16-21 17.30 (19.15) £6.00 (£5.00) Aug 12-16 15.15 (17.15) £6.00 (£4.00) REVENGE ofHoward Brenton's firstandfull-length play.Written A clever,in the satirical,s, comedic exploration crime, punishment adapted BABLAKE AT DIVERSE ATTRACTIONS 00©00 for 90's,instillLove' as poignant as ever. A vengeance. real character comedy from60'the author Venue 11 - Diverse Attractions, Riddles Court, off Lawnmarket Tickets 225 8961 J11 of 'Cthehristie .

Aug 16-21 19.30 (20.45) £5.00 (£4.00) ■hard-working THE INSECT PLAY depicts butterflies, glamorous but heartless, beetles, buttyranny materialistic and ants,oppression.The whose serviceKapek to theBrothers' community ★ ■ RICHARD' Schild, RAINBOW Axenophobe, free adaptation of Shakespeare' s Richard III. merely conceals ruthless abused paranoiac, strategist, moderniser, clown. remains colourful,production! moving,anddisturbing, provocative and very funny. satire Narcissist, Seven shades of the rainbow.

Can one man cope with so much and still lay claim An exhilarating toAugthe16-21 throne21.00 of England?

Aug 16-21 13.45 (15.20) £4.00 (22.50) £6.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 12+ THE PITCHFORK DISNEY

By Philip Ridley.ago.Dimly lit room.

Night. Man. BACKSTAGE THEATRE COMPANY 00©00 Woman.Twins.

Parents ' d isappeared' ten years Always a Venue 21 - Roman Eagle Lodge, 2 Johnston Terrace Tickets 226 7207 KI0 They experience the world as a living nightmare. Macabre andstate bizarreof terror. fantasy defines their existence. ★Himalayan GASPERS A new cigarette' s Adsmokes Campaign.

An all-female attempt on a Aug 16-21 23.00 (00.30) £5.00 (£4.00) summit.

A sherpa who too much.The spectres of mountaineers long dead. Dotogether' ghosts inhale?Scotsman.

'Perfectly cast Backstage Theatre Company ANGELA BARLOW 00©00 Aug 9-20 working (not IS)superbly 13.10(14.20) £5.00The(£3.50) Venue 19 - C, Over-Seas House, 100 Princes Street Tickets 225 5105 110 READER, I MARRIED HIM Angela Barlow' s lively solo performance BADAC THEATRE COMPANY 0O©©O imaginatively reconstructs Charlotte Bronte's wedding eve. Will she marry her Venue 41 - Hil Street Theatre, 19 Hil Street Tickets 226 6522 HI0 curate, or does she still hanker after Mr. Rochester? Humorous, touching and you know Brontes or not. ★ ■ ASHESproviding TO ASHES explores friendships forged withinofthe inferno'Ifofyou accessible, Aug 15-21 whether 14.45 (15.35) £5.00the(£4.00) Suitable for ages 12+ Auschwitz, a disturbing insight into the mechanics genocide. only ever see one play about the Jewish holocaust, in my view it should be this one' J ewish Chronicle.

STEVEN BERKOFF'S EAST ®0©©0 Aug 7-30 (not 19) 21.10(22.15) £6.50 (£5.00) Venue 33 - Pleasance,60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550 LI4 EAST Berkoff directs a superb ensemble company in this 25th anniversary production of his modern classic.

With itsstylerichEast poeticis alanguage and uncompromisingly physicalteaming performance rollercoaster ofAug gripping theatricality, with19.visual and verbal exuberance.

4-8,10-12,15-19,22,23,25,26 3 0 (20.45) £9.00 (£8.00) Aug 13,14,20,21,27-30 19.30 (20.45) £9.50 (£8.00) Suitable for ages 15+ Telegrapnjj fp Greatest ^^Delight of my Fringe' f Financial Times 1

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BEYOND PRODUCTIONS ®0©©0 Venue 4 - C too, St Columba's by the Castle, Johnston Terrace Tickets 2255105 KI0 ★Barbara SHAKESPEARE' S WOMEN: LOVE' S LABOUR' S REGAINED by Lewis.

Agonise over love and lust with Zelda, Shakespearean heroine ofemotional our times. She plays jazz, dancesKate,theHelena tango, surfs the web and dives into the of Cleopatra, & Miranda.

Aug 5-30 turmoil 18.45 (19.40) £6.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 12+ BIRTHWRITE THEATRE COMPANY ®0@©0 Venue 19 - C, Over-Seas House, 100 Princes Street Tickets 225 5105 110 ★clubbing.

THE RETRO KIDS 31/4/97; Eve of General Election.

Simon wants to gofive Emma wants to change the world.

Something' s got to give.

Follow students on the night that everyone remembers. Hard-core drama from an award-winning Aug 4-30 (not playwright.

17) 21.30 (23.00) £6.00 (£5.00) BLACK TREACLE THEATRE OOO©© Venue 152 - Augustine's, George IV Bridge Tickets 225 6575 Kl I ★generation ALL TALK From the first world war to the Newbury Bypass, the young put intosmallest contexttheatre in a series of savagely funny looks at 'generation apathy' fromisWales' Aug 24-30 14.55 (16.25) £4.00 (£2.50)company.

BLANK CANVAS THEATRE ®Q©©0 Venue 41 - Hil Street Theatre, 19 Hil Street Tickets 226 6522 HIP ★youBEAUTY Look in the mirror and what do you see?

If you can' t paint what paint whatintoyouherwant to be. Artist Laura Branigan dares to invite artists past are, and her head.

Aug 7-30present (not 19) 14.00 studio...

(15.00) and £4.00into(£3.00) Suitable for ages 12+

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Theatre BLINDING IMAGE 00@©0 Venue 152 - Augustine's, George IV Bridge Tickets 225 6575 K11 ★bodyHOLLY FROM THE BONGS A mother' s sanity slips away; her son' s is filleda with hills andbutholes on the criss-cross Irreverent punctuates devastating inspirational journey intree. this brand new humour play by award-winning Garner.£5.00 (£4.00) Aug 17-28 (not 23)author 18.4Alan 5 (20.15) THE BLUE RINSE THEATRE COMPANY 00©00 Venue 28 - Greyfriars Kirk House, Candlemaker Row Tickets 225 3626 Kl I THE HYPOCHONDRIAC Moliere' s and bitingly funny- andclassic playwhowhich satirises our obsession with our bodies illness those exploit it!

After aofhard day's lunch sit back and enjoy this fresh musical adaptation with aAugcast9-15 colourful characters.

13.45 (15.00) £5.00 (£4.00) BOILERHOUSE oo©©o TROUBLE (NEW(SCOTLAND) ZEALAND) / GI3 Venue 90 - Graffiti, Corner Broughton and East London Streets Tickets 557 8330 ★'states ■ BLEACH Major international co-produaion.

Boilerhouse: Headstate, Seizer; a generation' s demand for visceral, angry, intelligent theatre' Guardian.

Trouble: 'A phenomenon not a Antheatre company' Evening Post Zealand.

APreview man alone.

A17road.17.A30destiny. intimate road journey of epicNewproportions.

Aug (18.45) £5.00 Aug 18-28 (not 23) 17.30 (18.45) £8.50 (£6.50) B.R.A.T.S (BISHOP REINDORP A' LEVELTHEATRE STUDIES) OOOOO Venue 16 - RocketVenue ©Theatre Arts Centre, 10 Davie Street Tickets 667 6666 LI3 ★forBLOODY INNOCENCE If you were a refugee, you' d take nothing granted - not evenexplore your life. by the ideasinofaAntonin BRATS passionately the Influenced refugee phenomenon visual fistArtaud, fight between oppression... and compassion.

Aug 9-14prejudice, 19.45 (20.30) £3.00 (£2.00) BRING IT ON ®QOOO Venue 19 - C, Over-Seas House, 100 Princes Street Tickets 225 5105 i 10 ★madness WELCOME TO THE MOON AND OTHER PLAYS ofFromshorttheplays moonlit of his Moonstruck screenplay comes this collection

by John Patrick lovers Shanley. Meet the loner west, funny. the neurotic New-Yorkers, the more...

Poetic,outoriginal, Augstar-struck 4-1415.45 (16.35)and£5.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 12+ BRISTOL EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE COMPANY ooo©o Venue 21 - Roman Eagle Lodge, 2 Johnston Terrace Tickets 226 7207 K10 ★sexual SEXgames GAMES AND MATCHING OUTFITS A powerful play ofofcomplex and role-play set in the privacy of the bedroom.

A world cross-dressing, andtransformation. domination as two people explore their identity through sexual23.30submission discovery and Aug 23-29 (00.15) £5.00 Double Bil Price (with Politica Erotica) £8.00 ★ the POLITICA EROTICA A dynamic exposure of sexual power-games inpolitician corridors ofWestminster.

Where aofstrong, single-minded is drawn into thetoclosed worldsexual sadamasochism and dominant begins the process of awakening her true identity.

Aug 23-29 00.20 (01.05) £5.00 Double Bil Price (with Sex, Games and Matching Outfits) £8.00 BROUHAHA ®0©©Q Venue 82 - Komedia @ Southside, 117 Nicolson Street Tickets 667 2212 M12 ★theatre ■ WELL, FAREWELL A kaleidoscope of deep emotions, surreal physical and frighteningly dark humour.

Lying in a hospice, two extraordinary friends share an exceptional life and an excruciating death. 'Five stars'Three Weeks 1998.

Previews 13.30£7.00 (14.40)(£6.00) £6.00 (£5.00) Aug 8-29 Aug 13.306-7(14.40) BRUCE ®0©00J12 Venue 76 - TronMORRISON Kirk, 122 High StreetATTHETRON Tickets 225 1637 ★A unique SHAKESPEARE: IN LOVE THE PASSION, PLAYS & POETRY arrayplayed of Shakespeare' s most provocative dramatically the and stonesandofpassionate a stunningcharacters 16th Century 'out this amongst versatile and dust exciting Aug 5-21setting 13.30 by(14.20) Free (Donation at door)performer' The Scotsman.

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BEDLAM THEATRE (venue 49) August 9 - 28 @ 8pm Box Office: 0131 225 9893

“Wk^fotife OosH^ BRUNTON THEATRE COMPANY 00©©0 Venue 191 - Brunton Theatre, High Street, Musselburgh Tickets 665 2240 K22 Outer ★thisAexciting MADMAN SINGS TO THE MOON Dangerous new comedy bya cafe.

Scottish company.

It' s pandemonium when Kenny holds up Bristlingproduction' with energy,Theincisive andonhumour.

'Striking drama, deft humour, quality Stage30wit1998 Confessions.

Aug 13-28 (not (21.30) Aug 21,25 14.30Suns) (16.30)19.£5.50 (£4.00)£7.50 (£3.50)

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BST PRODUCTIONS OO©©© Venue 23 - Chaplaincy Centre, I Bristo Square Tickets 662 8882 LI2 ★ THE TIES THAT BOUND USlifeInends burying the Abody, the truth ischilling tale unearthed.

Josef died in 1944 his in 1999. poignant and about love, pain waltzing...sometimes Aug 20-30 16.3and 0 (17.40) £6.00 (£4.00) the closest friends are worlds apart.

BAm WdMStB BUNK UP 00©©0 Directed by Cal McCrystal Venue 152 - Augustine's, George IV Bridge Tickets 225 6575 K11 ■on THE HOLE Thereseesisaafantastic hole in thesignificance road, curious folkhole.Their wonder theories what is going below.

Each one in the are ingenious but contradictory. Absurd drama.

OESMiaBm ^ Festfvoi Festival |i1 Aug 17-22 16.30 (17.30) £5.00 (£4.00) T CKETS 0131 556 6550 Edinburgh THE BUSH ©O©©© Venue 3 - Assembly Rooms, 54 George Street Tickets 226 2428 111 HOWIE THE ROOKIE by Mark O' R owe.

A Bush Theatre Production.

Urban lives laid bare in the streets, pubs and dirty dives of Dublin.

Engrossing, violent, funny and moving.

'Powerful, poignant and'Spulverisingly funny' Irish Times.

'Electrifying' , Telegraph.

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Aug 6-12,15-19,23,24,26,30 20.10 (21.40) £9.00 (£8.00) Aug 13,14,20-22,27-29 20.10 (21.40) £ 10.00 (£9.00) c ©o©©o Venue 19 - C, Over-Seas House, 100 Princes Street Tickets 225 5105 110 The funkiest Festival on the Fringe, from Bardic breakfasts to breathtaking physical theatre, the best of new international writing and fast and furious 3 comedy. you see itCheck all. out C, C too and C in the venues section, and make sure tyteen /Han productions ★ ■ SHAKESPEARE FOR BREAKFAST Shakespeare's characters turn the tables,comedy spillingintheEdinburgh' beans ons longest-running their creator's love-life...

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4 - C too, St Columba's by the Castle, Johnston Terrace Tickets 225 5105 KI0 Embrace the devil in you... Venue LOVE' S LABOUR' S LOST Four young men avow themselves to study and HAN abstinence.

Fourfantastical young ladies are determined to persuade themShakespeare' otherwise...s Witty women, Spaniards and true love denied make GREYFRIARS youthful 'Elegant,£6.00 enjoyable, KIRK HOUSE Aug 5-30comedy (not 15)a classic.

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VENUE 28 / 86 Candlemaker Row CAMBRIDGE MUMMERS ©O©©© K10 August 9 - 30 (not 16 & 23) Venue 21 - Roman Eagle Lodge, 2 Johnston Terrace Tickets 226 7207 Time 19:40 (20:30) ■magicians, LATE ONE NIGHT in a from city haunted bytheghosts, clowns, mimes andworlds the dead peep out cracks in plaster and forgotten £5/£4 emergeaward-winning from every photograph.

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY ADC ®0©©0 Venue 21 - Roman Eagle Lodge, 2 Johnston Terrace Tickets 226 7207 KI0 ★Christopher A SYMMETRY OFs lastLOVE ASwords, writer spies, investigates theandlabyrinth of Marlowe' days. murder betrayal.

Illusion and reality twist. collide in this entertaining Elizabethan thriller with twentieth highly recommended' The aList '98.

Aug 6-29 century (not 12,24) 16.'Excellent 15 (17.35)theatre... £5.00 (£4.00) CAMERA ®Q©©0 Venue 19 - C, Over-Seas House, 100 Princes Street Tickets 225 5105 110 ★sado-masochism BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Rituals of power and sex spiral into and murder in this uncompromising new work from Fringe First-winning writer Terry Hughes.

'Kicks the audience squarely, quite unforgettably inAug the4-30 jaw' Time 'Hughes£6.00 writes 19.30Out.(21.00) (£5.00)with Hitchcockian flair' Independent.

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CANADA S CATALYST THEATRE oo©©o Venue 62 - Continental Shifts at St Bride's, 10 Orwell Terr. Tickets 346 1405 K5 ★ THEwinning HOUSE'Elephant OF POOTSIE PLUNKET Creators oflectra' I997'. Ins Fringe First Award Wake' .

A mock epic inspired by ' E an icy land ofsaveperpetual winterhouse a prominent frontier heiress fights a tragi-comic battle to of Plunket.

Aug the 9-28historical (not Suns) 20.00 (21.30) £7.00 (£5.00) CASTAWAY PLAYERS OOO0O Venue 28 - Greyfriars Kirk House, Candlemaker Row Tickets 225 3626 Kl I ★ TALKING MIRRORS Emotions runrefugehighinintheMargarete Boyce' swhere comedya when Peter has a ' R id Wife Crisis' .

Liz seeks powder room, cleaner24-28 takes12.her40on(13.20) a journey self discovery. Menopause rules and Viagra Aug £3.50of(£3.00) Suitable for agesFalls!!

12+ CHANNEL 12 THEATRE ©O©©© Venue 19 - C, Over-Seas House, 100 Princes Street Tickets 225 5105 110 ★survive?

THE ALUNATIC When an angel casts judgement on humanity, can anyone stylistic look at the nature of forgiveness, and whether we deserve tocompelling' exist pastLiY2K, from award-winning playwright Dale Smith. 'Frank and st. '17)Frighteningly direct' Times.

Aug 4-30 (not midnight (01.00) £6.00 (£5.00) CIA.IRMAS DO TEMPO ©Q©©0 Venue 41 - Hil Street Theatre, 19 Hil Street Tickets 226 6522 HI0 SISTERS OF THE SEASONS Enchantment, magic potions, voodoos, andfora the good dose of humour, all tossed into a witch' s cauldron... this is the recipe Sisters of the Seasons, new play based on the witches of Shakespeare's Macbeth.

Preview 7 15.00 a(16.00) Aug 8-30Aug (notThurs 12,19,26)£3.0015.00 (16.00) £6.00 (£5.00) CLUB WEST 00©©0 Venue 182 -AveClu(next b WesttoatB&Q) the EdiTickets nburgh337Dance0748Centre, 10Westfield (fromWestfield Aug 8) Halls, LI CLUB WEST AT THE EDINBURGH DANCE CENTRE New Venue.

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Offering a diverse programme of innovative dance, music and theatre. nightly.

Plus theLicensed best in late night and house/techno/drum & bass 23.30-03.00 bar/food Sunday is Seventies night!beats ■London TAI CHI TEA Multi-media introduction to the art ofTai Chi by Complementary Optional Aug 9-28teacher. (not Suns) 11.00 (12.00)tea.£5.00 (£4.00)open class follows. ★ ■ I'BECKETT IN THE AFTERNOON Beckett SamuelMan: Beckett's ’Not , 'Rockaby' plus multimedia stagepluspremiere of, 'P'QWoman: uad'of. Beckett multimedia stage premiere of ' E h Joe' ' B reath' iece Monologue' and hat Time' Unmissable. the incomparable Aug'T9-28 (not .Suns) 14.00 Starring (16.00) £6.00 (£5.00) Sylvester McCoy. ★created ■ MINUTE TO THE MILLENNIUM uniquely journeys fromIrishindividual rhythms and lives.

AnSixAfrican Indian, Italian,personal Anglo-Saxon, Trinidadian, American and Jewish South discover their roots and firework the sky£6.00and(£5.00) the soul.

Augspark 9-28 a(not Suns)display 16.30 of(17.30) CODPIECE DRAMA SOCIETY 0QOOO Venue 19 - C, Over-Seas House, 100 Princes Street Tickets 225 5105 110 WINNERS by Brian Friel.

Hilarious and captivating snapshot of rural Irishandlife.

This exquisitely crafted and compelling play explores intolerance, idealism the breakdown ofatcommunication.

Haunting. From the author of Dancing at Lughnasa. its best' Aug 4-14 'D14.rama 45 (15.35) £5.00Three (£4.00)Weeks.

Suitable for ages 12+ COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS 00©©0 Venue 81 - The Garage Theatre, Grindlay Court Centre, Grindlay Street Tickets 221 9009 K9 ★about I MIGHT BE EDGAR ALLAN POE Dawson Nichol s dark comedy a mental patientHayward: who might the masterunfamiliar of horror fiction.

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0 5 (16.20) £4.00 Aug 9-30 (not 16,23) 14.05 (16.20) £8.00 (£7.00) ★ HALF OF WHAT YOUonSEEa bridge How would you like tohasbreak few rules?

Sally and Charlie playWestern games wheretheir a suicide beenstaya witnessed.This new comedy from Australia explores struggle to connected.

Aug 9-30 (not 16,23) 17.00 (18.15) £5.00 (£4.00) COMPAGNIE LE PUITS 000©0 Venue 48 - Bennington Resource Centre, 200 Bennington Road Tickets 337 0564 CI6 ★richness THE and LAND OF IGOR A tale of humour and compassion revealing the heartache ofa child life with who France, is different.

The actors, and Michel Vienot, withsomeone autism. From in English, for allMary ages.

Aug 19.3have 0 (20.45) £5.00 (£3.00) Aug 24,26,27 25 13.30 (14.45) Suitable for ages 8+

T h p a t ro COMPANY GAVIN ROBERTSON OO©©© Venue 82 - Komedia @ Southside, 117 Nicolson Street Tickets 667 2212 M12 ■thisFANTASTICAL VOYAGE ' M asterful *****' Scotsman / 996.The return of two-man 'ingenious News of the20,000 World.leagues A sell-outunderin USA and Japan.

Jurassic Parkofmeets Jasoncomedy' & theF.A.B.' Argonauts the sea!

From the 'T17)hunderbirds Augcreator 8-29 (not 17.15 (18.35) £7.50 (£5.50) Suitable for ages 11 + COMPANY THEATRE ®0©©0 Venue 82 - Komedia @ Southside, 117 Nicolson Street Tickets 667 2212 M12 ★ provocative IN THE LINE OF DUTY grief

by PipofUtton,the author of 'Ason,dolf.

Aand new drama.The a father for his dead of the18.police over a£5.50 villain,(£4.50) shot, in the line of duty.

Augthe7-29concerns (not 16,23) 35 (19.25) LABELS After selling out in 1998, Louis de Bernieres' miniatureby masterpiece obsession returns withLisR.S.C' s pate GaryonTaylor in'Athemasterful role created Pip Utton 'A of tasty treat *****' The t .

Free toast. production' The Stage.

Aug 6-29 15.00 (15.35) £5.50 (£4.50) Suitable for ages 10+ Venue 47 - The Cafe Royal, 17 West Register Street Tickets 556 2549 U2 ★ DONdefiantly QUIXOTE OF NETLEY ABBEY Sexuallyandbrazen Carol, sarcastic Dave, playing Bach to indifferent passers-by gentle Don Quixote.

Violence, comedy andmagnificent live guitar ascombine in an emotionally charged theatrical gem Quixote.

Aug with 6-30 Pip(notUtton 16,23) 15.55 (16.55) £5.00 (£4.50) Suitable for ages 9+ AHeads' CHIPseries.

IN THE SUGAR by Alan Bennett.Taken from the first Talking A darkly comic talereturns of Graham, his acclaimed Mam, Mr.Turnbull and Care in'SpottheonCommunity.

Chris Parker with his performance.

Aug 7-30****' (notScotsman.

16,23) 15.00 (15.45) £5.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 10+ CRUMPETTHEATRE COMPANY OOO©® Venue 49 - Bedlam Theatre, 11 b Bristo Place Tickets 225 9893 LI I BEN ELTON' S 'SDoris ILLYWallis COWvents A savage satire oncelebrities the tyranny ofcover. the tabloids.

When super-bitch her venom, take Dare yousrisk12thherFringe wrath? Don't miss this hilarious, hard-hitting show.

Crumpet' Aug 23-28 16.10 (17.45)appearance. £6.00 (£4.00) DEAD EARNEST THEATRE ®0©©0 Venue 41 - Hil Street Theatre, 19 Hil Street Tickets 226 6522 H10 ★homes ■ KADDISH Ethnic cleansing 1944.

A community expelled from their and driven into the night tortured by hope and delusion.

Compelling theatre, alivelikewithDeadtheEarnest' music and style of Central Europe. 'Thank God for companies Aug 7-30 (not 19) 19.45 (20.45)The Stage. £6.00 (£5.00) DEMARCO EUROPEAN ART FOUNDATION 0Q©00 Venue 109 - D.E.A.F. @ St Mary's Cathedral, St Mary's Cathedral, Palmerston PI Tix 557 0707 16 DEATH OFdismantling A SALESMAN Trident Theatre present Arthur Miller' s devastating the Battles American Dream.

Following sell out successes ofthis'Mhaunting acbeth' inproduction '97 and 'ofBoflack with Dogs' in ' 9 8,Trident return with a classic.

Aug 16-21 12.00 (13.00) £7.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 13+ ■ FRAGMENTS OFwriter THEMike WALL - STItLEONARD' S SCHOOL Aof★ new play by winning Tibbetts. is 10 years- orsince the collapse ofinterwoven the Berlin wall.ofGermany is reunified is1989. it?.the. euphoria AAugcollection of tales hopes and dreams since I 1-14 14.00 (15.00) £7.00 (£5.00) ★Kolibri ■ MARRIAGEthisOFone-act KOCSONYA MIHALY Operausing Company, opera. A 17th CenturyModern masterpiece exciting and innovativepresents man-sized live influenced puppets.The contemporary music has been especially composed and is heavily in its style by Hungarian folk tradition.

Aug 16-21 18.00 (19.00) £7.00 (£5.00) DEVIL S KITCHEN PRODUCTIONS 00©©0 Venue 49 - Bedlam Theatre, I lb Bristo Place Tickets 225 9893 LI I ★ LEAVING LARA- This Lifee interested got it wrong.Twenty-somethings are notfinding interested in careers they' r in watching telly,Tombraider, the packet of Rizlas and dissecting each others' lives.That is, until Emmaemergency arrives...

Aug 16-28 (notA22)dramatic 22.30 comedy.

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DIRIGIBLE PRODUCTIONS ©OOOO Venue 45 - Old St. Paul's Church & Hall, Jeffrey Street Tickets 556 0476 JI3 ON THEtheVERGE Aofbushwacking comedy!

Three Victorian Lady explorers treka through jungles Africa, keeping cannibals at bay armed with nothing but silver tea service. But are they ready for the rock'n'roll fifties? Welcome to Terra IncognitaPreview 12.00 (14.00) Aug 7-14Aug12.060 (14.00) £5.00 £3.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 12+ DIRTY BIRD PRODUCTIONS ®0©©0 Venue 126 - C cubed, St John's Hall, West End, Princes Street Tickets 225 5105 19 AFTER DINNER Friday night in an Aussie pub, five desperate singles succomb to'Strictly cheapBallroom' wine, tooco-writer many beersAndrew and dubious dance moves to 80' s rock.

From '***** An unexpected gem... bursting with comic flair' List Bovell.

Aug energy 6-30 (notand12,18) 18.00The(19.15) £7.00 (£5.00) Venue 19 - C, Over-Seas House, TOO Princes Street Tickets 225 5105 110 EUROPEactress

by Michael Gow. BewareFestival, festivala young liaisons!Aussie Afterembarks an affair with a European at an Australian on the journey of a lifetimeTheasList.he pursues the love of his life. Award-winning writer.

'Outstanding Aug 4-30 (notcast'15,18) 11.15(12.05) £5.00 (£4.00) DIVERSE ATTRACTIONS 00©©0 Venue 11 - Diverse Attractions, Riddles Court, off Lawnmarket Tickets 225 8961 J11 FLAME-DANCE Fireworks Children' s Theatre inspire your child to theatrical heights with the enthusiasm of these first-timers.

Associates of Benchtours Theatre Aug 12-14Company.

12.00 (12.45) £3.50 (£2.00) (C £0.50) Suitable for ages 5+ ★Hilarity THEatLOSING GAME/STILL LIFE Springwell 55+Theatre. a taste of scotch - double bill.

Aug 9-14 the13.4slimming 0 (15.20) club £5.50& (£4.50) SHAKERS RE-STIRRED Cheeky Monkey hilarious Company.An oh-soview trendyof life. cocktail bar with long-suffering£5.00waitresses.Their yet bitter Aug 9-14four15.45(17.15) ★ TOWER BLOCK Bliss'RWomens Theatre. Join the women of Wester kissesKISSES that aw(Cenergy Aug I 1-14Hailes17.for45 (18.30) £3.50sting. (£2.00) £0.50)and exuberance' Scotsman. ★ MACHINAL Moving Withmodern two four-star Scotsman reviews, this sculptParts theTheatre. story everywoman.

Augleading 11-14 company 18.30 (19.15) £3.50 (£2.00)of(Ca £0.50) ★ DEATHIsWITHOUT TEARS Caveat. Arthur Rimbaud in hospital in Marseilles.

Catholic Aug 9-14 19.his45 deathbed (21.15) £6.00 (£4.50)conversion reality, or is he the voyant poet? ★Desperado EINSTEIN PRESENTS: JAMESpaysCLERK MAXWELL Theatre.

Albert Einstein respects to Scotland's scientific incompetent horseman.

Aug 9-14genius, 21.55 poet, (23.10)lover£5.00and(£4.00) ★NowFILABEG INTERNATIONAL e seen 'Airport'. book your for a£6.00 take off, inChameleon Millie Gray'Theatre.You' s Hebrideanvcomedy.

Aug 16-21 18.00seat (19.15) (£5.00) HAUNTED MsFits.MsFits, WriterLWT RonaAwards Munro, actress Fiona Knowles, emotive new comedy Aug 16-21 19.drama.

45 (21.15) £6.00 (£4.00) 'Outstanding' 4 star award '98.

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SEXUALcomedy PERVERSITY IN CHICAGO Tapeoriginal Theatre.SexDavid Mamet' acclaimed by award-winning companyRed- the and the City.s Aug 16-21 22.00 Aug 23-28 18.00 (23.10) (19.10) £6.00 (£5.00) CHEKHOV' S SHORTSplaysA isLeapChekhov In the Dark.This snack-pack of rarely-performed Aug 23-28 11.45 short (13.15) £5.00 (£3.50) at his tastiest.

Barrow Hall Theatre.

An exciting condensed version.

ATWELFTH mix of14.NIGHT energetic Auggreat23-28 00 (15.00) and£3.50physical (£2.00)comedy. Highly accessible.

FOUR MARIES Carnival.**** bestQueen debutofinScots.

Scotsman 1998.Carnival presents Fiona23-28 Allen' s 19.new45 play Powerful... compassionate.

Aug (20.45)about£5.50Mary,(£4.50) BALTHAZAR Cordon Productions. the East... but how they?£3.50 The (£2.50) human There beings came behindwisethemen icons'fromScotsman.

Aug 9-14wise12.00were(13.00) THE ARCHITECT AND THE EMPERORproduction OF ASSYRIA Foundation.

The first for overThe20Bewes years.

Aug 9-21 (notPureIS)absurdism!

13.45(15.15) £5.00British (£3.50) TAM LIN A JOURNEY Tweed Theatre performing poetry, prose and music, entwining Aug 9-14 the16.traditional 00 (17.00) and £5.00contemporary. (£4.00) Rich tapestry of performance poetry.

JANE BOM-BANE Round-a-way 'entertaining' Enchanting' Stage; 'majesty and wit' wrong Time Out;songs, 'gem'rhythms Scotsman;and'hrhymes. ugely Evening News.

Aug 9-28 (not Suns) 17.45(19.15) £5.50 (£2.50) 1914a soldier' Second experience Splinter Theatre.

A compelling and compassionate exploration ofAug 11-14 s20.00 (21.00) during £4.00 World (£3.00) War One. THEMaids' MAIDS Possessed secret power fantasies, The eroticMidnight revengeCowgirls. rituals(£4.00) against theirbymistress culminate in tragedy.

Aug 9-14 22.00 (23.15) £5.50 SOMETIME POET (AGAIN!) Big Issue Graham.'

S pirit of Fringe' Edinburgh Herald;16-21 'exciting' Aug 12.00West (13.00)briton;£5.00'vendor (£3.00)and ascendant poet' Big Issue.

HOSTAGEScreative Meerkat Productions.

Confinement, darkness, pain.Two broken bodies.Two Aug 16-28 (not 22) minds.Two 16.00 (17.00)hostages £4.00 with (£3.00)the imagination to escape.

ROBERT BURNS Splinter Theatre. Poet, songwriter, patriot.

AAug celebration of his(21.00) lifeSecond and£4.00 work.

18-21 20.00 (£3.00) SISTERHOOD Edinburgh Graduates. Love laughsportrayed with Moliere atTHE prententious Parisiennes and pseudo-poets perfectly in Ranjit Bolt' s vivid verse.

Aug 16-21 22.00 (23.15) £6.00 (£5.00) GAVESTON old Old 'hCoal Edward M's favourite ‘the’ true story and istory'Wharf. . A tale(£4.00) of royalty, loyalty andtellsfriendship.

Augchallenges 23-28 12.00 (13.05) £5.00 MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD Mercators. In verse and prose old, new, comic£5.00 - by (£4.00) the The Mercators.

Aug 23-28serious 20.00and(21.00) UNDERSTANDING MAGAZINE Poetry, play and prose readings from contributors to 'U(23.15) nderstanding Aug 23,24 21.45 £3.50 Magazine'. Readers from the floor are welcome.

COMPANY presents a selection ofHOME sell26-28 outRUN one21.45THEATRE acts(23.15) by local£3.50 writers.

Aug (£2.50)

DK99 OOQOO Venue 152 - Augustine's, George IV Bridge Tickets 225 6575 Kl I Theatre ROMEO ANDethnic JULIETconflicts-Two Somalia '88.lovers Bosnialie'92.dead.

Rwanda '9s4.contemporary, Kosovo '99.

Verona-violent DK99' relevant and highlypowerful culturallyinner-city diverse production s tragedy.

'Heart-breakingly youth theatre'of Shakespeare' Gordon Warnecke, Various park benches around Edinburgh My Beautiful Launderette.

STORY from Greyfriars to Holyrood CharlieparkWood Aug 9-15 14.05 (14.55) £5.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 12+ THE C*****.ZOO jhe Scotsman) presents Albee's Kirk masterpiece on 21Park, different benches: one for every day of the Fringe (see Daily Diary for details).

DOUBLE EDGE DRAMA ®0©©0 Aug 8-28 14.00 (14.45) Free Suitable for ages 13+ Venue 16 - Rocket Venue @Theatre Arts Centre, 10 Davie Street Tickets 667 6666 LI3 JOURNEY' S END From the acclaimed student company of Another Country DRAYTON COURT THEATRE COMPANY 00©©0 ('Fringe favourites' Guardian) comes R.C. Sheriffs classicthatanthem for the Venue 148 - Stockbridge House, 2 Cheyne Street F8 doomed youth ofWWI. 110 minutes of raw emotion will stimulate, ★Mannion) GET THAT DOWN YOU NOW (A personal reflection byto Oliver electrify10,12,14,17,19,21,24,26,28 and provoke. an informative snapshot of Irish drama from Synge the most Aug 16.00 (17.50) £6.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 13+ recent arrivals ofof the new Irish revival, linked with stories and anecdotes SOMEONE WATCH OVER ME Frank McGuiness'andextraordinary from play aboutaretheWHO' worldLofL- forced the hostage.

An Irishman, ananything, Englishman an Aug the 18-28West (not 22)Ireland.

12.00 (13.15) £5.00 (£3.00) American trapped to discover what, if a man in ★ YOUR FATHER’S EYES byChrisStephanie Skye.

Stephen production Henry solitude can retain of his humanity.15.55 (17.50) £6.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 13+ and Best Actor Award Winner Pickles from Director 1998' s aacclaimed Aug 9,11,13,16,18,20,23,25,27 of ' L ove!

Valour!

Compassion!' return to Edinburgh with tightly-woven Venue 33 - Pleasance, 60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550 LM drama/comedy of marriage, money and moving on.

Aug 18-28 (not 22) 13.45 (14.35) £5.00 (£3.00) THE MERCHANT OFforVENICE Successful women, Shylock andwars, Antonia, have sacrificed too much power.

In a modern world of gender sexual ★ ATRAMUNTANAT desperate search for fame,friends a youngfrom Spanish exploration and disco.

Double Edge' s multinational cast prove that the outward artist pays dearlytellswhen hea Inshyishisjoined influential Paris. show is never definitive.

Atramuntanat how Dali. youngatmanhome frombyprovincial Spain became the Previews Aug 14,15 10.

3 0 (12.00) £3.00 global enigma, Salvador Aug 16-19,22,23,25,26 10.

3 0 (12.00) £6.00 (£5.00) Aug 18-28 (not 22) 15.

1 5 (17.00) £7.00 (£5.00) Aug 20,21,27-30 10.30 (12.00) £6.50 (£5.50) Suitable for ages 14+ ★ ■ THE WANDERER by Henri Alain-Fournier.A chateau hidden in the ★ ■ DESCENT (based onwasGogol' s 'Dhit,iaryPleasance of a Madman' ) byLondon Joe Spence, forests, a fragile,atmospheric young woman and a restless youth novel on the'Lverge whose Gogol' s Gamblers a ***** ' 9 8/BAC '99.

The haunting, adaptation of the classic e Grandof manhood.

Meaulnes' byIndependent.

Michael Palmer'He has the oleaginous charm of Rik Mayall will break your heart. atPerformed his best' Aug 18-28 (not 22) 18.

0 0 (19.45) £7.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 12+ Previews Aug 5,6 11.

4 5 (12.45) £3.00 S PARTYdirect Bev'sfrom backainsell-out town! Mike Cult Kitsch Aug 11.45 (12.45) £6.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 13+ ABIGAIL' comes to Edinburgh run atLeigh' our sLondon home.classic Aug 7,8,10-12,15-19,22,24-26 13,14,20,21,27-30 11.45 (12.45) £6.50 (£5.50) Laugh out loud as you curl your toes in embarrassment.

NOTES FROMandUNDERGROUND I could on a crowded sidewalk 'Surprising well (£5.00) acted' Pink Paper. and no oneknives, wouldCheddar know 'why' . Ericstand Bogosian' s diaryhilarious from theto Aug 18-28 production... (not 22) 22.15Frighteningly (00.15) £7.00 city' snotedge:move sharp kitchen cheese crackers...from unhinged.

A story of haunting honesty.

Previews Aug 4,5 23.15 (00.30) 23.15 £3.00 £6.00 (£5.00) Aug Aug 6-8,10-12,15-19,22,24-26 13,14,20,21,27-30 23.15 (00.30) (00.30) £6.50 (£5.50) Suitable for ages 14+

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Theatre THE ECCENTRIC THEATRE COMPANY O0©OO Venue 81 - The Garage Theatre, Grindlay Court Centre, Grindlay Street Tickets 221 9009 K9 LIBBY Travelpassion, to thehumour, magical Pribilof of Alaska 1879 to★'A sheer experience insight'Seal'intoislands the people andinecology. pleasure' The News.11.00and(12.25) Aug 8,10,12,14,16,18,20 £6.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 10+ ★Laurence.

SYD Compelling worldsirenpremiere aboutlastbeloved painter He heedsNorth the call ofs tallest the frontier,Alaska forsaking familySydney and riches to conquer America' mountain.

Aug 9,1 1,13,15,17,19,21 11.00 (12.25) £6.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 10+ EDIBLE THEATRE 00©©0 Venue 132 - Augustine’s, George IV Bridge Tickets 225 6375 K11 ★world WONDERLAND Big Brother stalks Alice from a scientifically conditioned down the yellow brick road into an uncontaminated underworld.

Demented realism£5.00 paint(£3.50) the canvas of her brave new world.

Aug 17-30 fantasy (not 23)and14.bitter 55 (15.55) EDINBURGH ACTING SCHOOL 00©00 Venue 177 -YMCA73 Ferry Road Tickets 07775 871 342 / 556 0007 BI7 ★comeSAVING GRACE The multi-award-winning New Zealand play. ' H e said he'needd again, She said she couldn' t wait' .

Alone and on the streets, Grace is in ofAugsaving is Gerald that he(£4.50) seems. Starring New Zealand's Kirsty Hamilton.

9-14but21.30 (23.00)all £6.00 ALL MYrelationships SONS Arthur Miller'ans first major success isbetween a deeplyfather movinganddrama ofIt isfamily involving ideological sons. a merciless exposure of the capitalist ethicconflict and wartime profiteering.

Directed by Alan Dunbar.

Aug 17-21 21.15(23.15) £6.00 (£4.50) ★ IN interesting THE SUMMER HOUSE A new'98.playLoosely

by Scott 'the Onefinalof the most playwrights' Scotsman basedofHart onfamous yearsinFringe' of s Montgomery Clift.This is a candid and poignant study a actor decline.

Aug 10-14 19.00(21.00) £6.00 (£4.50) EDINBURGH GAELIC DRAMA GROUP 00060 Venue 83 - St Serfs Church Hall, Clark Road, Goldenacre Al 2 ■contrasting GAELICplays: DRAMA Sixth consecutive Fringe for Mod-winners, with two John Murray' s ' B alaich a' C hruidh' agus ' A ' chuirt' , performed as a tribute to thelainlateJoseph author, lain Crichton Smith. Guests Margaret Stewart, Allan MacDonald, Aug 26,27 19.30 (21.45) £6.00MacDonald. (£5.00) EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL D - The Edinburgh International Book Fes, Charlotte Square Gardens Tickets 624 5050oo©ooH9 ■ KINKY his unique blend ofcrime comedy readings and - FRIEDMAN the(23.00) world's£7.00 onlyDishing JewishoutCountry & Western writer.

Augmusic 20 21.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 12+ THE MCEWANS 80/- PUB TOUR EDINBURGH LITERARY Venue 178 - Outside the Beehive Inn, Grassmarket Tickets 226 6665 THE MCEWANS 80/- EDINBURGH LITERARY PUBthrough TOUR 300 Winners ofof the '97 Scottish Thistle Award forand Artsfiction, and Tourism.

Walk years literary history.

Fun,- fact combined with the language ofAugScottish Burns, Scott and Stevenson up to Muriel Spark and Trainspotting.

2-Sept 4 18.

0 0 (20.00) £6.00 (£5.00) Aug 2-Sept 4 20.30 (22.30) EDINBURGH PEOPLE ©0©©0 Venue 17 - St Peter's Church Hall, Lutton SPlaTHEATRE ce p 13 ■rollicking THE COMEDY OF THE MARKS This play by Alan Richardson is Del a Scots comedy which owes much to the tradition of Comedia 'Arte.The setting, a Venetian - yes VENETIAN! - inn in the late 17th Century Aug Suns) 19.45 (22.00) £6.00 (£5.00) Aug 6-21 21 14.(not 30 (16.45) Suitable for ages 12+ ■restaurant TIME OFsuggests MY LIFE

by Alan Ayckbourn.

A familybutdinner partydisturbing in a a happy domestic get-together gradually undercurrents and family skeletons encompassing the past, present and future are exposed in typically Ayckbourn fashion.

Aug 45 (22.00) £6.00 (£5.00) Aug 24-28 28 14.319.0 (16.45) Suitable for ages 12+

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Theatre Talipot double award winners!

Theatre EDINBURGH THEATRE ARTS Venue 71 - Corstorphine Youth Centre, 12 Kirk Loan Tickets 0797 007 9164 ooeoo ★ MENofSHOULD WEEPlifeEnaon Lamont play depictsthethedepression harrowing effects stricken EastStewart' sideit also of sGlasgow ofwhere the privacy 1930'poverty s. Rich inunknown. contemporarytheechoes evokes ainnightmare world was Aug 9-21 (not 15) 19.

4 0 (22.20) £7.00 (£6.00) Aug 14,21 14.40 (17.20) EDINBURGH UNIVERSITYTHEATRE COMPANY oo©©o Venue 49 - Bedlam Theatre, I lb Bristo Place Tickets 225 9893 LI I ★nonsense ■ THEpoem.Violent HUNTINGverbiage.

OF THEPhantasticalphysical.A SNARK based on Lewis Carroll’s original riot of music-hall mockery and millennial masturbation.

Crawl ofupEngland. the underskirts of Queen Victoria. amused? back and Aug 9-21One (notis 15) 16.20Lie(17.40) £5.00think (£3.50) Suitable for ages 12+ LOOK BACK INlostANGER a minor in 1956, John Osborne' masterpiece hastransition, noneas ofrelevant itsCalled power.

Jimmyevemiracle' Porter brilliantly expresses thewas.sfears ofAuga period in on the of the millennium as it ever 9-28 (not Suns) 18.10(19.45) £5.00 (£3.50) EDWARD S THEATRE COMPANY OOOOO Venue 40 - The Quaker Meeting House,Victoria Terrace Tickets 220 6109 J11 ■is not BLACK COMEDY Peter Shaffer' s ingenious, upside-down comedy where alls as it seems.

Brin is expecting a millionaire to inspect his work and Carol' mother9-14to inspect him, but£5.00 certainly of chaos.

Aug 20.30 (22.15) (£4.00)not what happens - a nightSuitable for ages 10+ EMPIRE STUDIO PRODUCTIONS 00©©0 Venue 56 - The Attic, Dowers Close, Cowgate K12 ZOYKA' SI920' APARTMENT UK premier of Bulgakov' sRussia, (MasterMadame and Margaritta) satire on s Moscow.To finance her escape from Zoyka transforms hern apartment into RussianOut.Babylon of opium dens, vice and corruption. illuminating find'a(£3.00) Time Aug 15-28 'A16.30 (19.00) £5.00 Suitable for ages 12+

Water Carriers are back!

also European Premiere SAGE

St Brides Centre August 5-28 (not Sundays) The Water Carriers: 4pm (5.25pm,) fS.so/f/ jj Passage: 6pm (7.30pm) £8.5o/£7 (jffM music CDs now available /QT

ENEMATIC ©Q©©0 Venue 21 - Roman Eagle Lodge, 2 Johnston Terrace Tickets 226 7207 K10 ★ THE DARK The ouija boardagainst unleashes mysterious forces on the candle-lit stage, pitting cynicism mysticism.

Horror, melodrama and black humour chilling revelations build to a shattering climax.

Can you resist a spellcombine in TheasDark?

Aug Aug 6-22 23-29 23.20 23.50(00.50) (01.20) £5.00 (£4.00) EVERYMAN YOUTH THEATRE OOO©© Venue 21 - Roman Eagle Lodge, 2 Johnston Terrace Tickets 226 7207 K10 ★ ■ LIFESAVING happens where rose coloured pasts and high expectations constantly collide.

Using memories, experiences and disappointments that are personal as adynamic sunset and asperformance. practical as a Band-Aid, Lifesaving is a fast, physical as and visually new Aug 23-29 16.30 (17.30) £5.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 12+ EXACTING THEATRE COMPANY 00©©0 Venue 4 - C too, St Columba's by the Castle, Johnston Terrace Tickets 225 5105 KIO ★theatre, ■ NERVE A fast-paced, energetic, eclectic and raw piece of newly-devised exploring the external influences that govern and affect our internal impulses.

Look beyond the ordinary and find the magic behind the mundane in everyday Scotsman Aug 16-21life.10.'****' 10 (11.00) £5.001998.(£4.00) THE Psychotic andfantasy disorderly.A new commedia-inspired ofhallucinations CarylSKRIKER Churchill' s renowned work. Follow Josie'Rawheadandbloodybones, s footsteps asproduction her vivid become reality, and beothers prepared tothemeet the Kelpie,Yallery Brown and many along way.

Aug 23-30 (not 29) 10.10(11.00) £5.00 (£4.00) Venue 16 - Rocket Venue @TheatreArts Centre, 10 Davie Street Tickets 667 6666 LI3 ★ brutal PTERODACTYLS The British premiere ofdeceit Pterodactyls

by Nicky Silver.

AUrban portrayal of a family warped by denial, and sexual warfare. satire 18.00 rages(19.20) against £5.00 absurdist Aug 23-28 (£4.00)farce in this twisted comedy of manners.

Venue 49 - Bedlam Theatre, I lb Bristo Place Tickets 225 9893 m ■SirTHE SECRET OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

by Jeremy Paul.presents Returninga play to Arthur Conan Doyle' s birthplace, Exacting Theatre Company that enduring of thescrutinises psyche10.of0literature' world's£5.50 smost first(£4.50) consultingfriendship detective.and the darkest recesses Aug 16-21 0the(11.45) 85

Theatre ffsiTHE FAMOUS GROUSE HOUSEPRESENTS 11 SCOTTISH INTERNATIONAL @0©©0 Si [g Venue 34 - The Famous Grouse House, 5 Chambers Street Tickets 220 5606 KI2 ★by ILL-TRICKITTHEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS ' L ORNA' written Greg Dawson Allen.

A tragic but humorous account of Lorna Moon, who emigrated to Hollywoodoffrom and became one of the highest paid screenplay the Aberdeenshire 1920s.

Aug 24-29 12.1writers 5 (13.30) £6.00 (£4.00) ★Burns PARCEL OFtoday BURNS - CALLUS THEATRE COMPANY If Robert was -alive hehe?would beanda stand-up andsaviews rampant nationalist or would Come hear theandcomedian national bard' on Scotland re-born, and learn about the man his enduring influence.

Aug 6-8,11-15,18-22,25-29 12.30 (13.30) £6.00 (£4.00) STREET LEVEL DUCK

by David Join George andwitty EmilPRESENTS in a Chicago parktheasVARIATIONS they discussto ducks and life.Mamet.

The clever and dialogue reveals characters be distracted, impassioned, argumentative, thoughtful, Aug 18-29 (not 23) 20.00 (21.00) £7.00dissatisfied (£5.00) and questioning.

Suitable for ages 12+ THE ROWAN TREE COMPANY PRESENTS WAR & GLAUR A Scottish journey through World War I. Accomplished, powerful andperforming cleverly constructed...

John Nichol and Hilary Bell are at the peak of their powers. a great diversity of characters and emotions.

Aug 9-22Full(notof surprises...

16) 14.00(15.15) £7.00 (£5.00) ★Stevenson' MARKYs classic

by Martin Hannan.

A riveting adaptation Louis 'Markheim'and. Faust meets RepoofManRobert in a chilling maelstrom urbantaleblood-sport Aug 6-15 of14.15(15.15) £6.00 (£4.00)stolen souls. ★ SKERRY VHOR, ULTIMATE ISLANDS' Robert Louis the best-loved andwith least-known ofextraordinary Scottish writers.

Dead atwife44,Stevenson his lastnursed, 14years were spent Fanny, his Wild West who nagged19-29 and (not loved23)him 14.passionately. their story. Suitable for ages 12+ Aug 15 (15.30) This £6.00is (£4.00) DONA ROSITA.THE SPINSTER The wife that neverwith was, believed to her cost inwhose a man.entertaining Essential Theatre Co. returns poignant story characters convey totheEdinburgh laughters, tears,herearthiness and lyricism in Lorca' s tragicomedy.

Aug 23-29 15.25 (17.25) £7.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 12+

oo©©o fecund theatre MI2 Venue 82 - Komedia @ Southside, 117 Nicolson Street Tickets 667 2212 ■ POLARITIES (PART ONE) - THE CHERRY ORCHARD version 2.0 Chekhov for today.

A subtle technological experience.

A sensory adaptation capturing'...highly evocative textures,exhilarating contemporary echoes,wonderous' timeless characters, fecund theatrical, ands utterly Guardian. fecund ' . ..searingly intelligent work' What' On. Aug 8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28 19.15 (20.30) £7.00 (£5.00) ■Costumes.

POLARITIES (PARTTWO) UBU ROI Comic A brightmayhem. open playing space.

Props.

Grotesque characters.

A galaxy sound/video effects,atBeer. fecund; '...like being injected Sunday with adrenaline' What'sofOn. fecund;' . ..theatre it' s most three-dimensional' Times.

Aug 9,1 1,13,15,17,19,21,23,25,27,29 19.15 (20.30) £7.00 (£5.00) FESTIVAL THEATRE USC-USA 0O©©O Venue Theatre, Drummond Community High School, 41 Belle25vue- PIDrummond Tickets 558Community 9695 (after 14 July) FIS FESTIVAL THEATRE USC-USA The University ofFirstSouthern California School of Theatre' s highly acclaimed American Fringe Award Winning repertory classics. companyBuses presents American 8,9, its13, 19th 19,24,Fringe 39. season of premieres and ★ DRACULA byBram StevenStoker' Dietz.This new restores the suspense and seduction ofyour theadaptation stage. 'Ydeliciously our fear makes pound, renders veins rich,s fullclassic and tohemorrhages withinyour you.heart IAug want7,1your fear' .

1,14,18,21,25,28 16.00 (18.30) £5.00 THE PRICE Miller.' the mostevenengrossing and entertaining plays that Millerbywith hasArthur ever written.OneIthumour isofsuperbly, flamboyantly theatrical'ofN.Y. Times.

Examines compassion, and rare insight, the relationship two Aug long-estranged 8,12,15,19,22,26brothers.

16.00 (18.30) £5.00 I NEVER SANG FOR into MY theFATHER

by Robert Anderson.This moving and perceptive workdespite probes disquieting alienation which canofexist between father and son the best intentions of both. ' A playwright deep compassion' Newsday. 19.00 (21.15) £5.00 Aug 8,12,15,19,22,26 ★about NATIONAL ANTHEMS'Profane,

by Dennis A hard-hitting parable American Materialism. smartofMcIntyre. and disturbingly McIntyre demonstrates his visceral sense theatricality asN.YTimes. wellfunny... as his own state-of-the-heart awareness of contemporary behaviour' Aug 6,10,13,17,20,24,27 16.00 (18.30) £5.00

Nlkol Hodge') one-woman )how taking in on a journey where the play) )everal different character) )truggling in a relatiomhip with a young African J American woman on a voyage into )elf-diicovery. / ’ * _ Though we never see this woman, we can share her heartbreakingji ^ \ : yet hilarious process of breaking out of her mold aii1 I A ®a finding the freedom to 'unBecome {mT

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GARAGE THEATRE Venue 81 Grindlav Cturt Centre Tel 1131 221 9119 http://www.hk.airnet.ne.in/art/ W

BAD SEED (Thriller) adapted byhits.The MaxwellNewYorkTimes Anderson from William March's novel.

One Broadway' literateof10,13,17,20,24,27 horror storys outstanding and a19.00 superior of theatre'. wrote: 'an extraordinary Aug (21.30)bit £5.00 SIX DEGREES Winner play of theof the 1993past Olivier Award forandOF bestwillSEPARATION play.

'Six business Degreesbywherever isJohn the Guare. bestitAmerican several seasons do hot goes' Variety.

Aug 11,14,18,21,25,28 19.00 (20.30) £5.00 FETTES AT THE FRINGE OOO0O Venue 124 - Fettes Concert Hall, Fettes College, E. Fettes Avenue Tickets 332 2281 D7 ■youthful HIAWATHA Fettes' Capital Award-winning company returns with cast to present a fast-moving spectacles narrative of dancepoem, and rhyme in a Michael Bogdanov' s adaptation of Longfellow' Hiawatha.

Spellbinding theatre.£6.00 (£2.00) Aug 23-28 physical 19.35 (20.45) Suitable for ages 10+ FIREFLY PRODUCTIONS OO0OO Venue 21 - Roman Eagle Lodge, 2 Johnston Terrace Tickets 226 7207 KI0 ■theCHARLIE CHAPLIN IS WEARING MY PANTS Fatty Arbuckle was most successful silent comedian of his'thetimequintissential until a scandalFringemadeexperience' him the first ever blacklisted in Hollywood, '98 Theactor 'quite therapeutic' Aug 8-21Scotsman 11.40 (13.20) £5.00 (£4.00)The Stage.

THE FIRM ©0©©0 Venue 21 - Roman Eagle Lodge, 2 Johnston Terrace Tickets 226 7207 KI0 ★ UNDERGROUND Winner ofnew the play, 1999exposing CamerontheMackintosh Award forof New Writing.

An explosively gritty seedy underbelly 1960's ganglandgrit.London, 'Underground' is a harrowing evening of relentless, gut-churning Aug 6-29 20.30 (21.50) £6.00 (£4.50) FIRST AMONG SEQUELS OOO©© Venue 28 - Greyfriars Kirk House, Candlemaker Row Tickets 225 3626 Kl I ★Wafer THE& LOSER' S GUIDE TO THE MODERN WORLD by Jenny Peter Yates. ' I f I come back I would like to come back as this play' G. Hoddle. Til borrow money and buy this play to live in' P. Mandelson.

Aug 24-30 16.50 (17.50) £5.00 (£4.00) FLETCHER AND FOOTFALL PLAYERS PRODUCTIONS Venue 28 - Greyfriars Kirk House, Candlemaker Row Tickets 225 3626 ★Language: WILL'Slargely ONEinappropriate.

AND ONLYTIME DEPRIVATION PLAY use of Nudity: accidents happen.Violence: scalpel and drugs may disturb.Theme/content: time deprivation paranoia, making, books, you'll laugh you'll cry. Duration: noexperiment, time atAug all.9-22model (not 16) 20.55 (22.10) £4.50 (£3.50) THE FLYING PIG THEATRE COMPANY OO©©© Venue 36 - Gilded Balloon II, People's Palace, Old Fishmarket Close Tix 226 2151 KI2 ★imprisoned SHAFT inThea liftcomically tortured relationship Shelley and Adrian, study ofofneediness nerdiness.

Flying Pigs return: 'Bovernight. est of theAfest'warped The Scotsman 1998; 'Bestandof what' s new' Three Weeks 1997.

Aug 16-30 13.00 (14.00) £6.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 12+ FRANTIC REDHEAD PRODUCTIONS ©0©©O Venue 55 - Randolph Studio, Inst. Francais d'Ecosse, 13 Randolph Cres. Tix 225 5366 H8 ★ RIFFS AND CREDOSintense Nickexploration Salamone (1998 Fringe FirstAwardfromwinner).

Passionate, blasphemous, of theversion transformation life to death as a 'vpriest lies dying ofLAAIDS. An 80-minute of Angels in America' LAAugWeekly ividly dramatic' Times.

9,2 1,25,27,29 Double6,8,1Bill0,1Price2,1 4,1 (with7,1Whale Watchers) 21.25 £12.00(22.50) £7.00 (£5.00) ★play.WHALE WATCHERS Fringe First writer Salamone'seach world premiere Survivors from pitch 'Riffs and and roll Credos' to memories, the boata stand railingalone as they on thisclinglife-affirming excursion.other Alsoand enjoyable asAug piece.

7,9,11,13,15,18,20,22,26,28,30 21.25 (22.50) £7.00 (£5.00) Double bil price (with Riffs and Credos) £ 12.00 ★ SEARCHprisoners THROUGH THEburied ASHESin thePrimeashpits Productions.

Diaries of Auschwitz discovered the crematoria, contrasted with diaries of their captors.

'The bitch thatofspawned this monster isAugon 7-14,21-30 heat again' Brecht.

Aug 15,16,19,20 18.16.2355(19.35) (17.45) £6.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 13+ ★ LAST LISTS OF MYMarkMAD MOTHER (Julieattempts Jensen)toCommissioned by Angeles' prestigious Taper Forum. Dot erect road blocks asLos her mother sprints toward the black-hole netherworld of dementia.

Powerful, humourous story£6.50 told (£5.00) with heartbreaking care.

Aug 10-14 16.17.3555 (19.15) (17.55) Aug 15-20 (not Aug 22-30 24) 19.45 (21.05) Suitable for ages 13+

★ ■sung ANGLOKLAXONS girl's romantic inPrix' Paris told and in French and Phyllis EnglishEnglish by 'Festival D'Humouradventures Premiere award-winning actress, Roome, accompanied by Mathieu Elfassi.

Touching, funny, outrageous. 'Story comes alive through Roome's personal force' Financial10-29Times.

Aug 17.00 (18.10) £6.00 (£5.00) ★ WHOdetermined TOLD Uvoice BLACK BEAUTIFUL?!

A young sandstrong, defiant, heardWUZ through theEarl. monologues, poetry,woman' music lyrics composed and performed by Eleanor A world premiere by a London, and Los£5.50Angeles Aug 8-21New15.York 30 (16.45) (£5.00)produced playwright. ★newSLIPPING HIM THE TONGUE UNLVFestival. playwright Mark Kenneally's comedy suddenly honored and at Kennedy Center A redneck Shakespeare mysteriously beginsaway?speaking in blankwhoverseloathes 'a la' the Bard.

Is there a cure before sanity slips Aug 7-30 (not 15,23,24) 15.15 (16.15) £5.00 (£4.00) ★ OLD SOULS a youngher African-American woman, discoversThe the personal treasurestheHaven, left'oldbehind grandmother. artifacts contain souls'byoftheir fourrecently womenherdeceased whoown.profoundly influenced her grandmother' s life, and, through stories, Aug 8-18 14.30 (15.15) £5.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 13+ ★ PRESENTTENSE IMPERFECT A series ofsnew plays,themany based true stories, about being young and living in today' world; funnyScottish bits andon the tragic.

Performed by the Tartan Palm Theatre Company, young and American actors. 11.00 (12.10) £4.00 (£3.00) Aug Aug 8,9,12,14,16,21,29 26,30 16.00 (17.10) Suitable for ages 12+ ★ ADOLESCENCErTHEME AND VARIATIONS Aofcandid looksat surviving the teen years in the mimicked styles of some the world' greatest playwrights including Strindberg, Beckett, Moliere.An episodic adventure to the exquisite. Another Tartan Palm presentation.sampling the mundane Aug Aug 7,10,11,13,15,22,28 25,27 16.00 (17.10) 11.00 (12.10) £4.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 12+ Venue 99 - Greyfriars Kirk Yard - Main Gates, Greyfriars PI, Candlemaker Row Tix 225 5366 Kl I ■Edinburgh' MACBETH Follow actors through wynds and closes off s Royal Miletheatrical asourMacbeth racesexcursion. to the fulfillancient theichlyWitches' unearthly predictions.

Unique walking ' R imaginative...a glimpse of the8-30 real (not Macbeth...FIVE Scotsman.

Aug 14,21,23,24)STARS' 18.40The(20.15) £6.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 8+ THE FREAKS OO©©© Venue 81 - The Garage Theatre, Grindlay Court Centre, Grindlay Street Tickets 221 9009 K9 ★Eclectic ■ FISTICUFFS A spontaneous combustion of unexplainable phenomena. andthese disorderly, come andbaboons. watch the Freaks battle! Mohammed Ali is no match twoeventperforming Kong.8-30 Afortheatrical not be belchedWith at! bigger, hairier balls than King Aug 00.15 (01.00) £5.00to(£4.00) FRESH BLOOD THEATRE 0O©©O Venue 19 - C, Over-Seas House, 100 Princes Street Tickets 225 5105 110 ★ SOMEHOW I FEEL DIRTY is20storytelling years unfoldandin engaging 60 minutes.

Fast,atphysical, comical and searingly honest.This theatre its best. ''EFresh Blood'****'s future work should be watched with interest' The Stage. xcellent!

The Scotsman.

Aug 5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,23,25,27,29 17.15 (18.15) £5.00Suitable (£4.00)for ages 13+ Double Bil Price (with Ubersausage) £8.00 (£6.00) GASP 00©00 Venue 11 - Diverse Attractions, Riddles Court, off Lawnmarket Tickets 225 8961 J11 VINEGAR TOM Pointy hats, broomsticks and cauldrons?

If Caryl Churchill subverts the stereotype, GASP explodes it, rearranging the shattered image with vividly cat-walk and surprising (Brecht' s 'Fearvicious Misery'£6.00 4*costumes and(£4.00) 'Mother Courage' music.

1997). GASP is back!

Aug 16-21 12.and 00 (13.20) GEORGIAN PRODUCTIONS OOO©© Venue 40 - The Quaker Meeting House,Victoria Terrace Tickets 220 6109 J11 MY SON WILL! An impassioned bravura performance' Birmingham Post.

Colin George as Shakespeare’s father John, revels in an inventive, occasionally outrageous, surprisingly movingworld' account of the life and world of his little boy: the Augrebellious 23-28 16.adolescent, 00 (17.50) the £5.00 (£4.00)s greatest playwright. Suitable for ages 11 +

STEVEN BERKOFF’S 25TH ANNIVERSARY PRODUCTION ®o©©o OF HIS MODERN CLASSIC GILDED BALLOON KI2 Julius Green & Ian Lenagan by arrangement with Marc Sinden for Venue 38 - Gilded Balloon Theatre, 233 Cowgate Tickets 226 2151 Smallhythe Productions Ltd and East Productions Ltd present ★ MURDER, MADAME? A clown drama withapproach puppetstodirected bystory NolaofRae. The Tell Tale Hearts bring a fresh and frenzied the true two maids.Total A magical piece of theatre for people of all ages. 'Theatrical brilliance!'

Theatre.

Aug 6-30 12.30 (13.45) £7.50 (£6.50) ★ ...and NO TALKING 'Fringe Witty, fast and touching' (Varsity) newandcomic'Between play, from of smash comedies 'Emotional Baggage' aschool-girl Rock'the('wmakers ildly funny' Telegraph).

NO TALKING is packed with bad advice, pranks,10,24) adult 14.betrayal and sexy Aug 6-30 (not 00 (15.15) £7.00Dads. (£6.00) ★of STEPHEN FRY' S ' T HE LIAR' The team behind I997's sellout novel. production LATIN return with a new adaptation of Stephen Awhite hilarious and greyer. worrying experience for anyone whoFry'hass best-selling ever watched their lies turn Aug 6-30 15.30 (17.00) £7.00 (£6.00) ★ TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Directed NathansetOsgood of Henery Theatre NewYork.Three rarely performedbypieces in the flop houses Street and bars of6-30New tenements Aug 17.Orleans 15 (18.45)and£7.50 (£6.50)of New York. Great theatre. ★ LOVEPUKE From Down Under,sexy,nowwryupandhere.painfully UK premiere oflookacclaimed young NZ writer Duncan Sarkies' truthful at relationships and how you can never predict their outcome.

After all, nothing isAugforever... or is it?

8-29 (not 16) 15.30 (16.45) £6.50 (£5.50) Venue 36 - Gilded Balloon I , People's Palace,Old Fishmarket Close Tickets 226 2151 KI2 ★ SUPPLIANTS Newfrom play byexperiences award-winning Royal Court refugees dramatistTamantha Hammerschlag.

Distilled of contemporary and created bylooka multitalented, multiethnic company, Suppliants promises to outsider. be a challenging Written at the contemporary world from the point of view of the Aug 6-30 12.30 (14.15) £7.00 (£6.00) and BETTER PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS BOND’ AGENERALLY story of Love, Jealousy, Friendship, Betrayal and Lego.

A tale of heroes.

Directed Aug 6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30 14.30 (15.45) £7.00 (£6.00) ★Brother THE exposes CHRISTIAN BROTHERS Throughout abully, day'sa schooling, a hero, Christian himself to his pupils as a tyrant, a weakling, a anAuginspiration a loving£7.00 friend.(£6.00) 7-15 12.3and0 (14.00) Steven TOHU BOHU PRESENTS 'WWhat HAT ifIF...?'

A darklyAh,comic creature.

What if a woman?

What if a man? a nightmare? what then?

Berkoff Aug 7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,23,25,27,29 14.30 (15.45) £7.00 (£6.00) THE OPIUM EATER by Andrew Dallmeyer.

Set in I820' s Edinburgh, this 'brilliant play' which de'honours (Time Out) pre-dates trainspotting 170(Scotsman) years.simpleton Thomas Quinceytheis Fringe' as dependant on drugs asAughe6-30 is on 17.hisby0messenger 0 (18.45) £7.00 (£6.00)Willie.

BOMBO PRESENTS:THE DIVINE DAVID'introduction S SPATIALto The AWARENESS NO. I directed bya James Neale-Kennerley.An Divine David... a man on mission to bring the avant-garde to the masses.

AAugshowbiz experience bursting with music, art and contemporary dance.

6-30 (not 16,23) midnight (01.00) £8.00 (£7.00) ★Banks THEwrites CURSE OFoneIAINof usBANKS 'My familyout has ofa problem.When lain a novel, time' weird Scottish s obsessiondies. withI'mtherunning author of The Wasp. Drama Factory.about one 'Aug Great6-30 Idea'14.lain3family' Banks.

0 (15.30) £6.50 (£5.50) Venue 101 - Gilded Balloon at La Belle Angele, 11 Nasties Cl, off Guthrie St Tix 226 2151 K12 ★PigGENTLEMEN VOLUNTEERS s acclaimed Ironof WWI TheatreFrance.

Company, presentsAmericans, a Philadelphia' startling portrait of lovetheatre and losstroupe, on the fields Hot-headed British Nurses, ambulance crashes andArcade. the music of 1916. 'Powerful' Philadelphia Weekly. 'Consistently enthralling' Aug 10-30 (not 16,23) 17.00 (18.15) £7.00 (£6.00) Theatre

GIRALDATHEATRE COMPANY Venue 126 - C cubed, St John's Hall, West End, Princes Street Tickets 225 5105 ®0©0019 ■power SALOME & A FULL MOON IN MARCH plays conveying theand of human symbols dramas andTwodance.This disturbing fusion ofdesire Oscarthrough Wilde lyricism, and W.B.Yeat' resonatesalluring with fear, longing, and beauty.

Aug 6-21 (not 15) 13.30 (15.00) £6.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 13+ PLEASANCE ONE 88

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The American Drama Group ARTTS International Bathtime Birmingham Stage Company Caroline Nin The Devil & Bill Markham Double Edge Drama Edward Petherbridge English Shakespeare Company Fat Hamlet Fireraisers Graeae Hoipolloi Huge Hungry Horse Jade Jason Orange in Gob Julie Balloo Leslie Phillips Little Women & Good Wives Loaded Love to Madeleine Orcadia Mad Margarets Marketing Mistake Peter Straker sings Jacques Brel Play Wisty For Me Psycho Babble On Ridiculusmus Saucy Jack and The Space Vixens Shakespeare's Bottom Shibboleth Skin & Ink Solent People's Theatre The Nation's Favourite: The True Adventures of Radio 1 The Payne and Haight Circus The Shoestring Players The Steven Berkoff Company The Treehouse Theatre Absolute Women of Troy,

COMEDY '99 Adam Bloom Afflicktion Al Murray The Pub Landlord Andre Vincent Arj Barker Arthur Smith BBC Radio 4 Ben 'n Arn Ben Moor Boothby Graffoe Brian Appleton Cambridge Footlights Chris Addison Colin Murphy Dave Johns Dominic Holland Electric Eel Frank Skinner Jason Byrne Jason Freeman Jon Reed Hudson & Pepperdine Instant Sunshine Kissing The Goldfish Lippy Mark Maier Mel & Sue Mervyn Stutter Navelgazing Norman Lovett Off The Kerb Roadshow Omid Djalili Paul Tonkinson Parkinson and Katz Phil Nichol Rainer Hersch Rich Hall Richard Herring Rubbaball Scott Capurro Sean Cullen Simply Barbra Steve Best That Biscuit Stole My Husband The Comedy Zone The League Against Tedium The Mighty Boosh The Nimmo Twins Tim Vine

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Theatre GOB SQUAD 000©C Venue 37 - George Square Theatre, George Square Tickets 662 8740 MI ★rareSAFE Don’t miss this award winning internationally acclaimed company in UK performances of their latest work SAFE. Part play, part rock-concert, part planekitsch. crash, Gob Squadbyguarantee an inspired evening of visually rich celestial Aug 25-30 21.30Supported (22.40) £8.00Armstrong (£6.00) Flooring.

GONE WILD PRODUCTIONS oo©©o Venue 28 - Greyfriars Kirk House, Candlemaker Row Tickets 225 3626 KM ★convent, BODIES UNBOUND is a one woman show about a nun who leaves a where she went to escape the pain of life, and discovers the sacredness of ordinary experience wisdom£6.50of the flesh by being a masseuse.

Aug 9-30 (not 16,23) and 15.10the(16.30) (£5.50) GRANARY PRODUCTIONS ®o©©o Venue 41 - Hil Street Theatre, 19 Hil Street Tickets 226 6522 HIO ★of two ...touched...

Rural Ireland to Central Dublin. l980-2000.The explosive flight children from domestic torture to freedom within the city' s decay, climaxing with theIrishmillennium.The newAwards. play by Ursula Rani Sarma, 'Previews Best Playwright' National Drama Aug 7,8 12.

3 0 (13.30) £4.00 (£3.00) Aug 9-30 (not 19) 12.30 (13.30) £6.00 (£4.00) GREAT LIVES THEATRE ©0©©0 Venue 82 - Komedia @ Southside, 117 Nicolson Street Tickets 667 2212 MI2 ★Picasso' ■ THE VISIT TO PICASSO Picasso' s studio WWII during the occupation. s young daughter Mia has to be rescued from the other side of Paris, but, into Picasso' s atstudio walks Josef Goebbels, Hitler's right hand man, to see the work.£6.00 Auggreat 6-29 Picasso 11.45 (13.10) (£5.00) GREEN MAN PRODUCTIONS 00©©0 Venue 28 - Greyfriars Kirk House, Candlemaker Row Tickets 225 3626 Kl I ★dark■ heart THE ofGREEN MAN Vivid and erotic, this magical play takes you to the nature.

Here the mythical untamed male spirit confronts his destiny.9-30Will(nothe save the world?

Aug 16,23)or destroy 19.40 (20.30) £5.00 Embrace (£4.00) the devil in you...

GRESHAM S YOUTH THEATRE OOOOO Venue 81 - The Garage Theatre, Grindlay Court Centre, Grindlay Street Tickets 221 9009 K9 ★yearsTHEof history BLOODY MILLENNIUM New Year' s Eve 1999 and a thousand away -historical or does it?tourGYTof our follows theirs 4-star smash of 1998ADwith thisfades hysterical, country' chronicFringe chronicles from 1000-AD2000.

Aug 9-13 11.00 (12.00) £5.00 (£2.50) Suitable for ages 8+ GROUP5I 00©©0 Venue 45 - Old St. Paul's Church & Hall,Jeffrey Street Tickets 556 0476 J13 ★Jarry'■ sUBU An enchanting, sublime and lyrical new musical adaptation of Alfred shit-flinging, bowel-crunching, earhole-perforating, rollocking-bollocking romp. It'tos inEdinburgh, yer face and play that started riots in Paris, comes prioruptoyer£6.50 its bum.The London Aug 16-28 midnight (01.45) (£4.00)run.

GROUP THERAPY THEATRE COMPANY OOOOO Venue 28 - Greyfriars Kirk House, Candlemaker Row Tickets 225 3626 Kl I ★by LIFE' S TOO SHORT TO PAINT BEHIND THE RADIATOR inspired the working methods of practitioner Mike Leigh focusing on the relationships and pressures of lifeheading experienced by a group of people living in a post modernist towards Aug 9-14 society 12.35 (13.20) £4.00 (£2.50)the millenium.

THE GUSTHEATRE COMPANY 00©©0 Venue 45 - Old St Paul's Church & Hall,Jeffrey Street Tickets 556 0476 Ji3 ★collectors.

JARGOONS An original piece of thrilling drama following a gang of debt Justice, loyalty and love pull at our unwilling hero while murder, intrigue and conspiracy flow seamlessly.

Jargoons offers human interest in an action-packed Sponsors: Aug 8-28 18.1play.

5 (19.45) £5.00Bristol (£3.50)UWE. HAMPDEN-SYDNEY SONNETEERS 00©00 Venue 125 - St Mark's Unitarian Church, Castle Terrace J9 SONNET VARIATIONS: SELECTED SONNETS by Shakespeare.

These poems, reflecting vicissitudes of love in content are matched by the unique structures, sounds andyouimages by the ensemble.This production is14.sure to entice£3.00 with created the Sonnet' s infinite variety. lively Aug 16-18 0 0 (15.00) (£2.00) Aug 16-18 15.30 (16.30)

HARVARD-WESTLAKE REMBIKO PROJECT SCHOOL/ OOO©© Venue 123 - Rocket Venue @ South Bridge Resource Ctr, Infirmary Street Tickets 558 9991 K13 ★Chronicle.

THREEA breaktaking DISCIPLESliveASCENDING ' J ohn Keats meets John Coltrane' jazz NY' quartet.

A groundbreaking original script. LA LA' s Harvard-Westlake School. s multi-racial Rembiko Project.

THE HARD AND FASTTHEATRE COMPANY 0O©©O 9Preview American kids23 competing for the gig(£2.00) of a lifetime...Just 3 will ascend.

20.15 Venue 19 - C, Over-Seas House, 100 Princes Street Tickets 225 5105 110 Aug 24-30Aug20.15 (22.15)(22.15) £5.00 £3.00 (£3.00) ★conflict ION byThisan terrifying vision of the future sees a Romanian boy delivered from the reluctant NOTTHE HERRING END OF THE WORLD searching for aEnglish solutionprofessor. amongstButtheisatoms greatrelationship a£5.00 price(£4.00) to formed pay for whilst freedom? IT'S ©O0©O

BY RICHARD Aug 5,7,9,11,13,17,19,21,23,25,27,29 13.4too5 (14.35) Venue 33 - Pleasance, 60 The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550 HARLAND HAMSTRINGS THEATRE GROUP OO0OO ★ IT'S NOTTHE END OF THE WORLD BY RICHARD HERRING go1 to Nostradamus the ends of thewritten earth to escape the end of the earth.

Venue 79 - The Subway Club, 69 Cowgate K12 AFournewfriends playRita about ★hamstrings COMMITMENTS At the Fringearound, for 4thtransferring phenomenally succesful year, 'Previews Excavating ,4-6'Punk’s16.0Not Dead'. £4.00 by and starring BBC's Richard Herring bring the finest singers ' D ublin Soul' to Aug 0 (17.30) Edinburgh.

The Dailycomedy Mail: 'These singers are as good as they come'.

Aug 7-9,11,12,15-19,22,23,25,26 0 (17.30) £8.00 (£7.00) AAug dynamic musical missed.

Aug 13,14,20,21 16.00 (17.30) £8.5016.0(£7.50) 9-21 (not I 1,18) 14.00- not (15.30)to be£4.00 (£3.00) Aug 27-30 16.00 (17.30) £9.00 (£8.00) SIMON SAYSMusical ElectricBlack choreography.Wonderful acting. Rocky Horror meets Dennisthings Potter.

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Simon' s a them, simpleton - maybe HIPPODROME STATE THEATRE (U.S.A) 0O0OO sees in peopleby others don' t. Simon wants soon!

Another- Simon splendidly Venue 41 - Hil Street Theatre, 19 Hil Street Tickets 226 6522 HI0 innovative musical this established Edinburgh Fringe ensemble.

Aug 8-21 (not I 1,18) 16.00 (17.30) £4.00 (£3.00) ★celebrates AN ENCHANTED LAND by Mary Hausch.This brilliant tour de force the life Kinnan and workRawlings of Pulitzer prize winningFlorida' Scottish-American ■ STRANGERS ThisAlzheimers stunning Conference, piece of contemporary theatre, commissioned novelist, Marjorie s wilderness for the International receivedthought-provoking universally outstanding and inspired the world with Cross who Creekpioneered and The Yearling. reviews following its premiere.

Strangers is emotive, and Aug 7-18 18.00(19.15) £5.00 Suitable for ages 7+ profoundly moving. ' T ell me nurses, what do you see when looking at me?'

Aug 8-21 18.00 (19.30) £4.00 (£3.00) HODAR PRODUCTIONS OOO©© ★ ■ BOUNCERS Marking 150thsuccess. performance in -Edinburgh, this prolific Venue 4 - C too, St Columba’s by the Castle, Johnston Terrace Tickets 225 5105 K10 theatre group revisit their firsttheir Fringe BouncersHamstrings Godber'style. s finest a'Ovision of 90' s urban nightlife gets a real going-over OLEANNA Enter and the student arena ofescalates sexual politics.

A conflicting claustrophobic power struggle utstanding theatre by any standards' The Scotsman. between professor as their truths lead to Aug 8-21 20.00 (21.30) £4.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 12+ devastating results. David Mamet's controversial and provocative drama is racy and ambiguous.

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Following on from the The Independent phenomenal success of last year's 'If you see < BOOTLEG BOOTLEG BEATLES festival, make or Theit this Scotsman Booms brings you four of the best young comedy actors and stand ups together in an excellent comedy team Certified 'funny' in Government laboratory testsketch s 6-30 AUGUST '99 (NOT 16) 3.15PM AT THE GILDED BALLOON 233 COWGATE, EDINBURGH. TICKETS £5/£4.50 GILDED BALLOON TICKETS: OJ 31 225 21SI

HOMELESS AND HUNGRY PRODUCTIONS 00©©0 Venue 40 - The Quaker Meeting House,Victoria Terrace Tickets 220 6109 j 11 Theatre ★Spirit BIGofISSUE GRAHAM - RETURN OFperformer THE SOMETIME POET 'Briton Fringe' Herald & Post ' T he exciting of Edinburgh Fringe' West ' C ornwall vendor and ascendant poet/celeb' Big Issue ' B ook your tickets before he sells Big Issue Aug 16.30out!'

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ILLYRIA ooo©o Aug 9-14 17-20,24-28 10.30 (11.30) Venue 49 - Bedlam Theatre, I lb Bristo Place Tickets 225 9893 TWELFTH NIGHT Internationally acclaimed Illyria blast away every HOOT conception you've ever hadreturn about with how this Shakespeare ought be performed.

Venue 81 - TheTHEATRE Garage Theatre, COMPANY Grindlay Court Centre, Grindlay Street Tickets 221 OO©©© 9009 K9 The multi-talented quintet sparkling lustful tocomedy.

Scotsman 1996,' *5***'(15.50) The Scotsman 1997,'*****' The Scotsman 1998 '*****' The Aportrayal WOMAN ALONE by Franca Rame.A pacy, poignant (pretty damn good) Aug 24-28 14.

0 £7.50 (£5.50) of an oppressed woman.

Larger than life character.

Comic timing at its bestAward - truly stunninginternational performance.

Gut wrenching laughter with hard-hitting edge. director.

THE INFLATABLE THEATRE COMPANY OQ©©0 Aug 8-30 (notwinning 16) 20.15 (21.25) £5.00 (£4.00) Venue 90 - Graffiti, Corner Broughton and East London Streets Tickets 557 8330 G13 THE INSECT PLAY by the Capek Brothers.

A journey into a magical HOT POKER PRODUCTIONS OOOOO miniature world where the butterflies want love, the crickets want a baby, the Venue 123 - Rocket Venue @ South Bridge Resource Ctr, Infirmary Street Tickets 558 9991 KI3 ants want it all and the chrysalis just wants to be born. 'Charming... enjoyable' Herald13,15,17,19,21,25,27 1998.

RED DEVILS Four up four and coming actresseslassespresent atheir fiery way performance.

Aug 13.30 (14.30) £6.00 (£4.00) Obsessed withUnited football, working-class battlego-getting to see Manchester at Wembley.

A mixture of rough, romanticism ★ HOWTO MAKE A baby?

HUMAN want to bethiscloned? and sardonic, whiplash Northern humour.

Do you want a designer On theBEING brink world ofDotheyouofmillennium, Aug 9-14 19.05 (20.10) £5.00 (£3.00) show explores the dangerously human cloning.fast, physical 'Aug Feisty'14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28 The Scotsman 1998. 13.life-changing 3 0 (14.30) £6.00 (£4.00) HOT WAX 00©©0 Venue 20 - Theatre Workshop, 34 Hamilton Place Tickets 226 5425 F9 INFLATE OO©©© ★keeps WHEN SHE WAS BAD Stella Finch leads an ideal family life, yet she Venue 152 - Augustine's, George IV Bridge Tickets 225 6575 K11 hertakechildren inAa raw constant state of il health.

She gave them life and she can it away. drama scattered with bittersweet nuances.

■ SPINBACK In an original mixed media production, Inflate turn the tables Aug 17-22 16.15 (17.25) £7.00 (£5.00) back to 1988 and follow the rapid growth of dance culture through its first decade.

Featuring comicFivephysical performance, video interviews and live experimental DJ 1998 Star Review Aug 9,11,13,15,18,20,22,25,27,29 20.30Scotsman.

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Theatre IN HUMAN FORM OO0OO Venue 19 - C, Over-Seas House, 100 Princes Street Tickets 225 5105 110 ★ ■ PROPER SHOPPER isdoors YOU: Credit and Enter loyaltyfertile encoded onunder cards.

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Aug 15-21 16.10(17.00) (£4.00)£8.00 (£6.00) Double-bill Price (with Baa Baa Boys) Suitable for ages 12+ ★ BAA BAA BOYS Firstsuccumb boom,tothenpost-80s bust. Asmediocrity clothes labels replacesummer. principles, five teenagers in a The Spin King,slaughter? meanwhile, sells the world a new market: Middleheated Youth.

Lads to the Aug 15-21 Price 14.30(with (15.55)Proper£5.00Shopper) (£4.00) £8.00 (£6.00) Double-bill INTHE AISLES PRODUCTIONS 00©00 Venue 152 - Augustine's, George IV Bridge Tickets 225 6575 K11 ★ EXPLAIN THIS What is art?captivating And who'sculpture. s to say? Art 6 strangers meettogether and circulate around a mysteriously brings them asAugthe9-15 audience challenged explore one of our most human obsessions.

18.35 is(19.35) £4.00to(£2.50) JACKNIFE PRODUCTIONS 0O©©O Venue 4 - C too, St Columba's by the Castle, Johnston Terrace Tickets 2255105 KI0 ★overLUKE BACK IN ANGER A long time in the future, in a galaxy justWaders there...

LukeWarm must defeat evil rubber fetishist Thigh Length tore-mastered, save the Earth andedition. rescue the beautiful Princesses. Wide screen, digitally limited Aug 5-30 22.30 (midnight) £7.00 (£5.00) JAKES LADDER THEATRE COMPANY 00©©0 Venue 198 - Salvation Army HQ, I East Adam Street LI 3 ★redistributes HOODWINKED Stars TIM VINE (Best Newcomer 95).

Robin Hood wealth panto style.

Jakes Ladder' s anarchic antidote to the Third World Debtgratuitous Crisis. A apolitical show choc-full quick-fire wit, slapstick and totally satire.19.of0DROP THE£6.00 DEBT!unabashed Aug 16,17,19-24,26-28 (not 22) 0 (20.15) (£5.00) Aug 18,25 15.00 (16.15) JAPAN EXPERIENCE OO©©© Venue 81 - The Garage Theatre, Grindlay Court Centre, Grindlay Street Tickets 221 9009 K9 ■certain DIARY OF TAKUBOKU A major poet whose works and life reflect era with an ambience that capturedplaystheSetsuko hearts hisof those whodiscovered cameain touch with his works.

Miyako Hatamaka wife who his diary Aug 15-21after18.his45 death.

(19.30) £5.00 (£4.00) THEATRE SOLEIL LEVANT byYukio Mishima who shocked the world by-TROPICALTREES committing 'hinarakiri' ,Written ritualFrance. suicide by disembowlment.A tale of a nouveau riche family Southern The desperation and incestuous relationship a tragic love-triangle.

Aug Aug 8-21 22-30 13.11.0000(14.30) (12.30) £8.00 (£7.00) JAY PRODUCTIONS ©0©©0 Venue 21 - Roman Eagle Lodge, 2 Johnston Terrace Tickets 226 7207 KI0 SHERLOCK HOLMES...THE LAST ACT! Roger Llewellyn' s highly acclaimed portrayal,Death, premiered atandSalisbury Playhouse, transfers direct fromsoloEdinburgh. guilt,...sense 'Holmes as you'tovLondon, e always imagined but with a14.cutting ofa confession! humour' Aug 6-29him,... (not 8,16,23) 35 (15.55) £6.50 (£5.00) Sunday Express.

Suitable for ages 12+ JOHN LEWIS PLAYERS OOOOO Venue 115 - St Paul's and St. George's Church Hall,York Place Tickets 554 1502 H13 ★ PARTNERS IMPERFECT Poignant, colourful, humorous, affecting.

An msight into the day to day life of a working-class family.

A Fringe first you can' afford 19.to3miss.

A rainbow Augt 9-14 0 (21.00) £5.00 of emotions. A new play by David Fry. THE JOLLY ROGER THEATRE COMPANY 00©©0 Venue 28 - Greyfriars Kirk House, Candlemaker Row Tickets 225 3626 Kl I ★ ■ THE LAST WORDS OFpast?ELVIN BOX (Bridge Overdestitute, the Why?) Who is Elvin Box? What is his Why is he a homeless, alcoholic?

When did he meet 'Spellbound'? Where are the answers? Funny and moving world premiere.

Aug 17-28 (not 23) 15.30 (16.50) £5.00 (£4.00)

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3 0 (17.00) Aug 18 13.30 (21.00) (15.00) £7.50 Aug 19 21.30 (23.00) Aug Aug 2621(£5.00) 17.30 (22.00) (19.00) Aug Aug 282520 16.12.19.333000 (18.00) (14.00) Aug Aug Aug 2427 14.18.3300 (16.00) (20.00) Aug 29 20.30 14.30 (16.00) inKCSTHEATRE THREE PLAYSCOMPANY IN SEARCH OF A TITLE 000©0 Venue 19 - C, Over-Seas House, 100 Princes Street Tickets 225 5105 110 With fourthree five-star reviewsrelated and oneone-act West plays End transfer behind them, KCS present intriguingly by two masters of modern theatre, Edward Albeeofanddeath.

Luigi Pirandello.The plays deal with life's absurdities and the consolations THE ZOO STORY Edward Albee's life triumphant first play. Jerry exorcises demons byencounter telling Peterin Central his menacing story inPeter a bizarre andhim? profoundly disturbing Park.

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Amidst a hilarious send up ol ’NEVER EVER"' the a provincial town, Leopoldo Paroni, editor theARepublican DAILY MIRROR Sentinel, is viciously forced to eat his words and admit his imbecility. fascinating one-act gem. £4.00 (£3.00) "Their version of ’PERFECT Aug 22-30 40 (16.20) BOY GEORGE DAY' is hilarious" Triple Bil Price15.(with The Zoo Story & Bellavita) £10.00 (£8.00) Suitable for ages 14+ BELLAVITA one-act Pirandello'comedy s curious obsessionscharacters. are capturedAll inlovers miniature in the GILDED BALLOON 6th-29th AUGOST extraordinary of tormented ofloverthebycuckold' s revenge.

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Fabulous Theatre' Michaela 1 Twomey. Master Dramatist Brian Friel's spell-binding vision of I930's Donegal; JON REED & FRANK WATSON in feast of story telling, rich comic character and wild dance makes this a gorgeous Perrier Best Newcomer Nominee slice of16-28 Irish 17.Culture' s deepening confidence.

Aug 00 (19.30) £6.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 12+

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KIT AND THE WIDOW PRESENT OO©©© Venue 47 -The Cafe Royal, l7West Register Street Tickets 556 2549 112 ★ 5saviour, O'CLOCK ANGEL Tennessee Williams wrote 300 letters tostory his succubus, orforty-year Maria St. Just.The mordantly funny, unexpectedly gallant of a Kit Hesketh Harvey, with Maria St. Just).

Aug 12-30not-quite-love 11.15 (12.30)affair £5.00(by(£4.00) Suitable for ages 10+ KNEEJERK THEATRE ®0©©O Venue 84 - HolyroodTavern, Holyrood Road Tickets 557 4972 KI3 FORNIKATE She walks, sheexperiences talks, she flipslikeherthisfeetaren'behind hershared, head, but Kate is no dolly.

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■ ANDROMACHE by David Priestley.World premiere adaptation ofaRacine' s ' N ot your typical fluffy Fringe effort' The List.

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Four adulterous actors a demented sound-man in a live radio performance of Macbeth.

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LEARMONTH oo©©o Venue 152 - Augustine's, George IV Bridge Tickets 225 6575 ■shocking SALOME Lady Bracknell meets decadent Jerusalem in Wilde' s most a fusion and drum n'sumptuous bass, love sensuality and lust and- a side ordert play. of With murder - comeofandjazzexperience but don' lose your head!

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2 5 (18.25) £5.00 (£4.00) MARVIN R. HIEMSTRA: POET & JOYMAKER 00©©0 Aug 24-30 20.45 (21.50) Venue 28 - Greyfriars Kirk House, Candlemaker Row Tickets 225 3626 Kl I ★MRHA TURQUOISE COYOTE UNDERYOUR PILLOW Fun from John USA. LEICESTERSHIRE YOUTH ARTS 000©0 shines in one-man character show: worms hooked on Nietzsche, Venue 65 - St Ann's Community Centre, South Gray's Close, Cowgate Tickets 557 0469 KI3 Wayne, love-filled lotus-bud, hip mouse, Marilyn Monroe,... 'Hiemstra's ingenious performance brings to mind Dario Fo' Boy Guardian.

MACBETH bytragedy Williamever Shakespeare.

Blackits magic, treachery and blind ambition inrelevant the greatest written.

And warnings have never been Theatre more Aug 9-22 (not 16) 16.50 (17.50) £5.00 (£3.00) than today.

Presented by the acclaimed Leicestershire Schools Company Aug 23-28after16.0a0triumphant (17.00) £5.00national (£4.00)tour.

Suitable for ages 12+ MERLIN INTERNATIONAL THEATRE, BUDAPEST Venue 34 - The Famous Grouse House, 5 Chambers Street Tickets 220 5606 ®0©©O KI2 LEITHEATRE ®0©00 ★ LAODAMIA Hungarian drama in English. Suicidal macho pride kills King Venue 83 - St Serfs Church Hall, Clark Road, Goldenacre AI2 Protesilaos in Trojan War. Lusting widow, Laodamia, begs the gods for his ghost's return.music, Her gruesome wishloveis lost... granted, but for three hours only... action, poetry, THE LAIRD o' GRIPPY Robert Kemp' s Canongate rumbustiousofadaptation intosceneScotsof of dance, mythology, Moliere' s satirical comedy ' T he Miser' .

The 1750 is the Aug 6-30 (not 16,23) 20.00 (21.30) £8.00 (£6.00) much intrigue when the romantic rivalry of father and son is resolved by Grippy' Aug 7-21s first(notlove!Suns) 19.30 (22.00) £6.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 12+ metro-boulot-dodo ®Q©©0 Venue 143 - The Bongo Club, out of the blue, 14 New Street (off Royal Mile) Tickets 556 5204 J14 PETA LILY ®0©©0 ★ ■ REUNION A visual, physical, intelligent and witty experimental Venue 82 - Komedia @ Southside, 117 Nicolson Street Tickets 667 2212 M12 whodunnit.The internationally 'Sam'ans Do' .

Food is laidwillon,bebooze is free.

Aacclaimed night of fun,company laughterinvite and you discotowith ending ★a taboo-stomping TOPLESS Fringe First Award Winner Peta Lily gets things off her chest in everybody talking about. about life'Extremely and death,funnylove- and hate, sexglamourpuss' and sticking Aug 3 18.00 (19.05) £6.00 (£4.00) plaster, dancingcomedy and breasts. a crackpot Aug 10,13,14,17,20,21,24,27,28 17.55 (19.00) Time 6-29 Out.table23.25 Aug (00.25) £7.00 (£5.00) ■performance.

THE TUPPERWARE TEAandPARTY Award winning A lively, amusing often disturbing looklunatic atexperimental madness and of, psychadelic garden provides a place where meetsin,domestic LOST CAUSE 00©00 tosociety.The discuss the merits of LSD, religion, and Sainsbury' s .

Venue 40 - The Quaker Meeting House,Victoria Terrace Tickets 220 6109 J11 Aug 9,11,12,16,18,19,23,25,26 17.55 (18.55) £6.00 (£4.00) ABOUT FACEpressures Step intoandconfused Rachel'ofscaring teenageforworld as shewithstruggles to■schizophrenia. reconcile social the stigma a mother METTLE PRODUCTIONS ®0©©0 A challenging,Fellowship. new play.Touching, human and funny. Endorsed by Venue 3 - Assembly Rooms, 54 George Street Tickets 226 2428 111 the AugNational 16-21 16.Schizophrenia 30 (17.30) £4.00 (£2.00) Suitable for ages 11 + ★ SOMETHING IN COMMON Dave meets Charlie, a 28 year old intelligent, independent womanreallywhohaveis dangerously comfortable with her own sexuality.

Does Charlie THE LUCKLEY-OAKFIELD THEATRE COMPANY orAug is 6-12,15-19,23-26,30 he just another penis with legs likesomething all£8.00the(£7.00) rest?in common with this guy, ®o©oo 15.

0 0 (16.30) Venue 23 - Chaplaincy Centre, I Bristo Square Tickets 662 8882 LI2 Aug 13,14,20-22,27-29 15.00 (16.30) £9.00 (£8.00) ★Pauline THEFlannery.

GIRL I Snapshots LEFT BEHIND ME30sMuriel Sparkwhich shortspinstories adapted by from the and 50s, a tale of fatalism MIDLAND ART THEATRE 00©00 toPreview reveal Aug the chillingly unexpected beneath the surface of British respectability... Venue 16 - RocketVenue @TheatreArts Centre, 10 Davie Street Tickets 667 6666 LI3 7 11.

3 0 (12.25) £3.00 Aug 8-17 11.30 (12.25) £5.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 11 + ■playsKRAPP' S LAST TAPE/REQUEST CONCERT A indouble-bill of one-act by Beckett and Kroetz.

Intense and moving studies human loneliness, lightened nudity. by numerous touches of irony and dark comedy. Powerfully acted.

THE MAGIC 8 BALL THEATRE COMPANY OOO©® Contains Venue 123 - Rocket Venue @ South Bridge Resource Ctr, Infirmary Street Tickets 558 9991 KI3 Aug 16-21 17.00 (18.45) £5.00 (£4.00) ★ PILLOWSTALK dream notthinking a reality,person' thoughs deciphering our dreams enables usslumberland to decipherAthan reality.The nightmare which is more MONEY, CUP, SUGAR, WATER 00©©0 malice in Alice in Wonderland.

Intelligent.

Contains scenes Venue 125 - St Mark's Unitarian Church, Castle Terrace J9 which may be found offensive.

Aug 23-28 19.30 (21.15) £3.50 (£3.00) ★withBLACK AND BLUE Comedy writer John Bird returns to the Fringe this not-particularly-gritty police drama, where seven radio actors get grips with the plot, sound effects and each other. 'Plenty of laughs to go THE MAKARS & DMDC O0©OO toaround' Venue 104 - Murrayfield Parish Church Hall,OrmidaleTerrace HI Outer Aug 16-22The Scotsman.

17.15 (18.30) £5.50 (£4.00) BILLY LIAR This hisrealistic Yorkshirecliche-ridden comedy concerns an imaginative youth's struggle to escape complacent, background.The play mixes MOONBUN MATHILDA PRODUCTIONS 0O©©O broad comedy poignancy to strong dramatic effect. Billy's fantasies Venue 4 - C too, St Columba' s by the Castle, Johnston Terrace Tickets 225 5105 KI0 are whichwith15)wesubtle share. £6.00 Augones 11-21in (not 19.all 3can0 (22.00) (£5.00) SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION 'Dshirt. esperately Seeking Paul:ifWewe love you.

NYC is cold, and Woody wants his pink How can we help don' t knows classic. who you are?' Get hooked up with John Guare's fast, funky, sexy, stylish MARTHA FUREY PRODUCTIONS OQ©©0 90' Venue 81 - The Garage Theatre, Grindlay Court Centre, Grindlay Street Tickets 221 9009 K9 Aug 5-30 (not IS) 15.00(16.15) £6.00 (£5.00) ★ ■ LA FLOR DE MEXICO/FRIDA KAHLO A one woman play delving into thescolourful, bohemian, artistic intriguing BEN MOOR ®0©©O Mexico' most famous artists and wifeandofpolitically muralist Diego Rivera.life of one of Venue 33 - Pleasance, 60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550 LI4 Aug 30 (19.30) Aug 8-14,22,24-30 15-21 (not 16) 18.22.00 (23.00) £6.00 (£5.00) BEN MOOR: POPPY DAY TV Gameshows, drunken gymnasts, the Soviet Lassie, loveBenandMoor. friendship.

Another new reality-warping comedy When to befunny' together, can beingfromfromthe MARTIN SUTHERLAND PRESENTS ©0©©O acclaimed different universes keep youyou' apart?r16.e meant 'F0abulously Guardian.

Venue 82 - Komedia @ Southside, 117 Nicolson Street Tickets 667 2212 MI2 Aug 4-8,10-12,15-19,22,24-26 0 (17.00) £7.50 (£6.50) Aug 13,14,20,21,27-30 16.00 (17.00) £8.50 (£7.50) ★ SO, I KILLED A FEW PEOPLE...

Meet Archie advertisingshow. executive turnedshow serial killer.violence His finalandrequest?

To put Nunn, onChicago a one-man 'Terrifying A grimly funny about fearlessness' Tribune.

Aug 6-29 and 20.50oddly (21.55)moving' £7.50VillageVoice. (£5.50)

NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE OF GREAT BRITAIN ©0©©0 Venue 37 - George Square Theatre, George Square Tickets 662 8740 Ml I ■America' THEYs depression SHOOT HORSES DON' T THEY Set against the backdrop of tells theofcompelling great 1930' s Dance Marathons.

Withyears, the itincentive cash prizesstory and ofthethepromise of fame, MORPHEUS THEATRE 00©©0 couples would literally dance until they dropped.

Previews 7-10 16.00(18.15) £3.00 Venue 34 - The Famous Grouse House, 5 Chambers Street Tickets 220 5606 KI2 Aug (not 16) 16.00 (18.15) £9.50 (£6.50) ★ ■ PILATE As the walls around Pilate's soulAn crumble they whisper anstory VenueI 231-30- Chapl aincy Centre, I Bristo Square Tickets 662 8882 LI2 ancient truth with devastating consequences. exquisite andreality explicit ofjustice. man's(Morpheus' struggle between spirit and flesh, between political and moral it ■ 2:18 UNDERGROUND 20she'passengers, I carriage and 8 songs.

Kings 1998 show Four Stars Scotsman).

Cross: he' s stroking his Bible and s fondling her tupperware.

He' s dropping Aug 18-29 (not 23) 23.00 (00.15) £7.00 (£5.00) his flowers andsoon she'sstopwaiting to die.They are all going in the same direction. tube will14,15 in Angel.

Venue 13 - Harry Younger Hall, Lochend Close, Canongate Tickets 07050 161320 JI5 The Previews 18.3018.(19.30) £3.00£6.50 (£4.50) ■JoyPEER GYNT Year 2000 and Peer' s red hot glowing ring is getting hotter.

Aug 16-30 (not 23) 3 0 (19.30) was yesterday; the future' s todayMorpheus and it belongs toPeerthose who believeCentury. in the truth of their own imagination. blow into the 21st Aug 23-28 19.30 (21.00) £6.00 (£4.00) NEGATIVE EQUITYTHEATRE COMPANY ©Q©©0 Venue 23 - Chaplaincy Centre, I Bristo Square Tickets 662 8882 LI2 MOUNTAINTOP PLAYERS ENSEMBLE OO©©© ★ BUZZ STOP When there's only one rule left to break, how far will we go, how selfish can we be?

Explosive and erotic visual feast.

Stunning original music.

Venue 81 - The Garage Theatre, Grindlay Court Centre, Grindlay Street Tickets 221 9009 K9 Where will the15Buzz20.25stop(21.45) on our journey to the ultimate high. ★menagerie UNBECOMING NikolwhoHodges' show introduces us to a Preview of characters help toone-woman shape the sometimes heart-breaking, Aug 16-28Aug20.25 (21.45) £6.00 £4.00 (£4.00)(£3.00) frequently hilarious process of a young, African-American woman struggling ★ OUT OF THE HOUSEpassion, Boy bands, BMX, Blue andlivingBarbie, toAugbreak accepted£6.00mould 8-30from11.3the 0 (12.30) (£5.00)and discover herself. the best years ofaward yourDOLLS life? Pressure, prostitution and Peter pills.

Aand nightmare.

This winning production will make you laugh, cry shatter your illusions.

NATIONAL STUDENT THEATRE COMPANY (NSTO Suitable for ages 11 + ©o©©6 Aug 7-13 20.30 (21.30) £5.00 (£3.50) Venue 152 - Augustine's, George IV Bridge Tickets 225 6575 Kl I THE NETHERBOWTHEATRE ®0©©0 ★ DESPERATE REMEDIES Hardy' s firsthorror novelandis atwisted sinisterpassion tale of are vividly Venue 30 - The NetherbowTheatre,43 High Street Tickets 556 9579 JI3 manipulation and bloody intrigue.

Gothic portrayed in writer this newforadaptation

by SundayRobert TimesShearman.

Playwriting Award winner Sinti ★ ■ (Gypsy) KLIMTpeople.

Klimt's Can memories, Klimt' s music arethethebow history oftautGermany' s (and regular Alan Ayckbourn) they be drawn out like on a string?

Aug Theatre Fahrenheit' Artists tell the story that must be heard. Nine Aug 9-22 24-30(not (not16)29) 20.40 12.45(22.20) (14.25) £6.25 (£4.75) performances only. sIn Sinti English.

Aug 9,1 1,13,16,18,20,23,25,27 20.00 (21.15) £7.50 (£6.00) Suitable for ages 11 + ★ ■Theatre ON BUSINESS The Twentieth Century Gypsyeach storynew as told Sinti and Artists.

Fragments join to form a picture; storybysheds new light.

Eloquent testimony to a way of life, spirit surviving.

Nine 10,12,14,17,19,21,24,26,28 performances only. In English.20.00 (21.15) £7.50 (£6.00)Suitable for ages 11 + Aug

Theatre THE LAIRD OF SAMOA Robertinternational.

Louis Stevenson: passionate, sensuous, intelligent, patriotic, freedom-loving, JohnCargill Shedden' s acclaimed performance is Stevenson to the breathing flesh.

John Thompson' is Stevenson's authentic voice. Intimate, humorous, powerful - without RLSs script Scotland Aug 11-30is inconceivable. (not 8,15,22) 18.00 (19.00) £6.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages I I + ★ ■ THE ROBERT BURNS TOURandExplore thewhich hiddeninspired Edinburgh of Robert Burns as inhethereveals theofWallace, loves passionsKnox his works.

He will lead you steps Bruce, and Mary, bringing Scotland' past to8,15,22) life. 14.30 (15.30) £6.00 (£4.00) Aug 2-30s (not Suitable for ages 11 + NETWORK OF STUFF THEATRE ®Q©©0 Venue 126 - C cubed, St John's Hall, West End, Princes Street Tickets 225 5105 19 ★proprietors ARCHIE'setS ARCADE From their tiny parade of odd shops, four peculiar in search of Argos,'Achingly God offunny' Retail,Theto Oxford discoverMail.the'Hsecrets sale.

A brand newoutcomic adventure. ilarious'of The Scotsman.

Aug 6-27 16.30 (17.45) £6.00 (£5.00) NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY THEATRE SOCIETY (NUTS) 00©©0 Venue 81 - The Garage Theatre, Grindlay Court Centre, Grindlay Street Tickets 221 9009 K9 ★ ONE HIT WONDER body-warmers were called tank-tops? it or family live itRemember for thesex,firstwhen time.and Bitching, and big, big hair.TheRelive Partridge meet drugs rock'n'back-biting roll.The most sensational thing since instant mash.

Aug 8-29 23.00 (midnight) £5.00 (£3.50) NEW MERCURY THEATRE 0O©©O Venue 21 - Roman Eagle Lodge, 2 Johnston Terrace Tickets 2267207 KIO ★who■ discovers THIS YEAR IN JERUSALEM The story of Rebecca, recently widowed, things about her husband which require resolution.

Watched over by his trapped spirit,of she negotiates the situation to a thought-provoking conclusion. box tissues.

Aug 16-29 Bring 18.00a(18.55) £5.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 12+ ★ ■away.

A LETTER TOreceived ALAN The morning post isofcoming to Alan only to take him The letters could be from any the wonderfully bizarre characters who inhabit Alan' s postal world. Go on, open 'a letter to Alan' .

Aug 6-15 18.

0 0 (18.50) £5.00 (£4.00) Aug 23-29 13.00 (13.50) ★ ■feelings WATCHING CHARLIE Charliehis isrelationships a disturbedwith younghisman trapped by the betrayal thatof surround family.

His avenue ofIntense escapeandis ofvia the icons cinema particularly Chaplin' s Little Tramp. blackly(22.35) comic.£5.00 (£4.00) Aug 6-29 21.45 Rich Hall is funny, Otis is, if possible, even A funnier... £

NOTTINGHAM NEW THEATRE 00©©0 Venue 152 - Augustine's, George IV Bridge Tickets 225 6575 K11 Even if it means ★ TWICE NIGHTLY Two plays collide on a single stage in this original and inventive comedy satirising everything from Agatha Christie to the Fringe itself. of a farce and a whodunit provide 'layer upon layer pan Simultaneous ofAugcomedy' Theproductions Guildfordian.

9-22 (not 16) 14.55(16.15) £5.00 (£4.00) THE ODD YOUTH THEATRE 00©©0 Venue 152 - Augustine's, George IV Bridge Tickets 225 6575 K11 FIND ME Wild,Ansensitive, monstrous or special?

Who is Verity?withCanastonishing she love?

Isenergy, she beloved? extraordinarily compelling play performed stunning visualfortheatre powerful original music. Don't miss this breath-taking trueandVerity.

Aug 17-29 (notsearch 23) 18.the 10 (19.35) £5.50 (£4.50) Suitable for ages 12+ Venue 28 - Greyfriars Kirk House, Candlemaker Row Tickets 225 3626 KH ★ MOLLY War,public ointment andcope the English working-class.

How willCaroline Molly Wright fresh from girls' school with the WAAF? Don' t miss Wilton ('new . . mischievous... most entertaining' The Scotsman) in this funny and compelling play.

Aug 17-29 (not 23) 13.40 (14.40) £4.50 (£3.50) Suitable for ages 11 + OFFSTAGE THEATRE OO©©© Venue 21 - Roman Eagle Lodge, 2 Johnston Terrace Tickets 226 7207 KIO SEX, DRUGS, ROCKcontemporary & ROLL by portraits Eric Bogosian (a hilariousdriven wit’ byNYhabit Times)and contains darkly comic of characters desire.physical Performed in handcrafted character masks, this piece merges biting text with on, baby.

Aug 16-29 19.comedy.

05 (20.10)Rock£5.50 (£4.50) 97

Theatre THE OILY CAVERN THEATRE COMPANY ®o©©oNO Venue 19 - C, Over-Seas House, 100 Princes Street Tickets 225 5105 ★ WORMING INtea.THE MUD Soby Adrian Sellars.Topless darts, a wafer-thin squirrelAROUND and herbal Confused? are12Pixie with a can conscience (and a Bypass... barrowful of guilt). With hoursPatrol, of JCBeco-warriors sabotage ahead, they stop the Aug 4-30 16.45 (18.00) £6.00 (£5.00) ONDAATJE THEATRE COMPANY 00000 Venue 28 - Greyfriars Kirk House, Candlemaker Row Tickets 225 3626 Kl I ■members GROPING FOR WORDS A tender and humorous account of the of an adult literacy class overcoming their fears and admitting that they cannotMole. read.This perceptive play is written by Sue Townsend, the author ofAugAdrian 24-30 (not 29) 10.45 (12.15) £6.00 (£5.00) 100% PROOF THEATRE COMPANY ®0©©O Venue 45 - Old St. Paul's Church & Hall,Jeffrey Street Tickets 556 0476 JI3 THE CONSTANT COUPLE On The Constant Couple' s 300th anniversary, 100% Proof brings it into swinging, sophisticated 1920s society.

An outrageous Restoration comedyrevenge where mannered innuendo and slapstick seduction clash inPreviews a tale ofAug comical and true 20.15 £4.50 (21.45) £2.50love.(£2.00) Aug 9-28 20.156,7(21.45) (£3.50) THE ONION SHED 000©0 Venue 40 - The Quaker Meeting House,Victoria Terrace Tickets 220 6109 J11 ★ ANDtheAGAIN Easterof2000.

Set in a central Londonof pure policesocialism. station, against background an establishment terrified Aug 23-28 19.00 (19.50) £5.50 (£4.00) ONLY CONNECT OOOOO Venue 152 - Augustine's, George IV Bridge Tickets 225 6575 K11 THE STORY OF AMBA A young compelling princess' journey of revenge and selfdiscovery.

All-female group combine narrative with traditional Eastern9-14dance13.3to0 (14.30) relate episode from the Indian epic, 'The Mahabharata' Aug £5.00 (£4.00) Suitable for .ages 12+ OPEN WINDOW 000©0 Venue 90 - Graffiti,Corner Broughton and East London Streets Tickets 557 8330 GI3 ★Fast,SPEEDRUN

by Isabeldecorate Wright.theDown and words. drowning,Lostknocking back lifemusic. neat. furious characters air with in light, lost in It's a 23-28 hit, it's a18.shot, it's a voice screams... 'next please!'

Aug 00 (19.00) £5.00that (£3.00) OPHABOOM THEATRE OQ©©0 Venue 41 - Hil Street Theatre, 19 Hil Street Tickets 226 6522 HI0 ■physical FAUSTUS Devlish mayhem performed by 'Gmasked grotesques.Vibrant comedy in your face and on your lap. reat jokes, precise gestures, humour head(£4.00) off... a gem' Quest France Aug 8-30that(notmakes 19) you 13.15laugh (14.35)your£6.00 Suitable1998. for ages 12+ ORION THEATRE PRODUCTIONS 00©00 Venue 81 - The Garage Theatre, Grindlay Court Centre, Grindlay Street Tickets 221 9009 K9 ★ UNUSUAL CONDUCT Alison, architect of the millennium concert, loses her inspiration after herupon husband' s journey death.

Searching the voicerediscovering that was her music, Alisonofembarks a wildalarming through for childhood, the source her creativity with consequences.

Aug 9-21 17.20 (18.20) £5.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 15+ OS SATYROSTHEATRE OQ©©0K9 Venue 81 - The Garage Theatre, Grindlay CourtCOMPANY Centre, Grindlay Street Tickets 2219009 MALDOROR Brazilian TheatreGod, Company Os Satyros shows an★Lautreamont' immortal being fighting against Mankind BasedMaldoror, s radical poem,Original it is beyond good byandandSteven evil,himself. challenging alluponlimits with poetry and violence. soundtrack Severin.

Aug 8-30 23.00 (00.30) £7.00 (£5.00) THE OTHERTONGUE ©Q©©0 Venue 143 - The Bongo Club, out of the blue, 14 New Street (off Royal Mile) Tickets 556 5204 J14 *season FACEat the 2 FACE Highly acclaimed new writing direct from a hit sell-out Melbourne Comedy Festival.poignant A seriesandofvery shortfunny. scenes'Seriously about the scenes people make - acutely observed, hilarious' Triple R Radio Melbourne.

Preview 14.45 (15.45) £3.00 £6.00 (£5.00) Aug 9-28Aug (not5 Suns) 14.45 (15.45) 98

OXFORD UNIVERSr touring company Britain’s brightest new | venue19 Over-Seas company from England’s 100 PRINCES house STREET 1225 5105 most famous university

working & Bonking The Cure at Troy iCulpability

by Roald Dahl 1 __ Kids’ classic, suitable for 0.00am chiddlers of all ages

by Wolfgang Borchert Apocalyptic nightmare as a »2.30pm soldier returns home

by Jack Williams Raunchy new satire on 1.30pm sex ana modern drama

by Seamus Heaney, a version ol Sophocles Philocte' s Stunning 6.15pm tragedy from Nobel Prize Winner

by Matt King 7.15pm Psychological drama about rape and responsibility

by Peter Morris Rock musical for jaded 9.15pm/1am post-adolescents even/odd dates

by Peter Morris 9.15pm/1am Winner of Best International Playscript Award odd/even dates

Theatre OVERTHE EDGE oo©©o Venue 152 - Augustine's, George IV Bridge Tickets 225 6575 ETERNAL PEACE ASYLUM From Zimbabwe aandcomic, quirky, dark of★ chance. criminal experience, a psychiatric wardstory where threeA virgin supposed patients have beena wrong runningturna lucrative multi-national.

IsAugthe9-30 absurdity too tantalising? (not 16,23) 22.45 (23.45) £6.00 (£4.00) OXFORD UNIVERSITYTOURING COMPANY ©0©©O Venue 19 - C, Over-Seas House, 100 Princes Street Tickets 225 5105 110 Ahomeland, MAN OUTSIDE bysoldier WolfgangBeckmann Borchert.confronts Returningthetosame his shattered the defeated horror as thousands ofunleash refugees:hishisfeverish family cry murdered, his compatriots Nightmares to this apocalyptic world:indifferent.

'Aug Why4-30 are you silent?' (not IS) 12.30 (13.25) £5.00 (£4.00) ★ WORKING AND BONKING wants toof finish his essay, girlfriendhim. trouble, paranoid andbadthefriends worstMarkexcesses justbutwon' AAugraunchy, original15)friends satire modernstudent plays. 'Slifetunning' Oxfordt letTimes.

4-30 (not 13.30on(14.25) £5.00and(£4.00) ★ THEget CURE ATgetTROY 'HSeamus uman beings suffer.They torture one another.

They hurt andand hard.'agony Heaney' s and version of Sophocles' Philoctetes tells of physical mental when proud powerful heroes clash.

Poetic, profoundly tragic and passionate.

Aug 4-30 (not 17) 18.15 (19.10) £6.00 (£5.00) ★ CULPABILITY ither I kill you- theor man, I rapetheyourrapist, girlfriend. hen the man rapist, whotheis'Epower responsible or the'Wwoman?

A'kills playthey/jg examining *****' Scotsman, 1997. of love through rape and its repercussions.

Aug 4-30 (not 17) 19.15(20.10) £6.00 (£5.00) ★ BOYBAND popforconfection, part dark meditation onMorris, the nature stardom. rock Part musical jaded post-adolescents

by Peter winnerof of'Excellent I998'sANational Studentand Drama Festival International Playscript Award. both febrile icy' Sunday Times.

Aug 21.15 (22.25) £6.00 (£5.00) Aug 4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30 5,7,9,11,13,15,19,21,23,25,27,29 01.00 (02.10) ★A vegetarian MARGE 'Iwhore marriedandyoua communist for better orreal-estate for worse,agentDaphne, fight itbutNot outnotsuitable in for the lunch.' suburbs of Arizona.

From award-winning writer Peter Morris. for children or prudes.

Aug 5,7,9,11,13,15,19,21,23,25,27,29 21.15 (22.25) £6.00 (£5.00) Aug 4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30 01.00 (02.10) EILEEN PAGE ©0©©O Venue 38 - Gilded Balloon Theatre, 233 Cowgate Tickets 226 2151 K12 ★Lionheart' ELEANOR OF ACQUITAINE - MOTHER OFbe THE PRIDE Richard s passionate mother the only woman to Queen of England and France - lived life according to her tour-de-force RSC's Eileen Page.belief that 'woman equals man'. One-woman Aug 6-30 13.from 30 (14.45) £6.50 (£5.50)

PANAMA THEATRE COMPANY 00©©0 Venue 28 - Greyfriars Kirk House, Candlemaker Row Tickets 225 3626 Kl I ★theatre ■ INandREMEMBRANCE A blend of World War One poetry, physical musical theatre.

Performed by two men and one woman.

Bothpresent male casts haveimagery. physical disabilities and will be using these disabilities toAug 17-30 powerful (not 23) 18.10(19.10) £4.00 (£3.00) PAULERSPURY PLAYERS OOO©© A fascinating piece^t,,*.

Venue 21 - Roman Eagle Lodge, 2 Johnston Terrace Tickets 226 7207 K10 Do whatever it takes to get a ticket' Scotland On Sunday ■ LAST PANTO IN LITTLE GRIMLEY In a farcical, last-ditch attempt to attract audiences bigger than his cast, Gordon writes a ' s ex panto' .

Four actors and pantomime horse bring this David Tristram play vividly to life in a knockabout DIRECTED BY KEN McCLYMONT Aug 23-29 comedy.

19.15 (20.15) £6.00 (£5.00) BRAND NEW PLAY PENN THEATRE ENSEMBLE 00©00 Venue 28 - Greyfriars Kirk House, Candlemaker Row Tickets 225 3626 Kl I AclubMIDSUMMER NIGHT' S DREAM Get Pucked!

Come enter an American scene phantasmagoria of ' E cstacy' induced, ska-driven coupling.

Shakespeare goes re not£3.00 in Martha' Aug raving 17-21 mad!

11.50We' (13.15) (£2.00)s Vineyard anymore!

6-30 AUGUST not 9,23 ASSEMBLY ROOMS 5pm Festival TICKETS 0131 226 2428 Edinburgh 99

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AMSTERDAM PARADE PROUDLY PRESENTS 10-29 AUGUST (except Mondays)

BinSO! 'A show like no other yoo have ever seen!'

The Herald winner of the Herald Angel Award 1998 Destino Tango

Tango at its sensual best’ The Scotsman Fabulous Fringe FountaiUbar fascinating centre of The Amsterdam Parade on the grounds ot GRAFFITI (venue nr. 90) Fringe box nfffce 0131 220 5130 Graflfti box office 0131 557 0330 www.niobilearts.nl

Rejects Revenge Theatre Company presents Whoredom An hilarious bawdy Elizabethan tale of love, licentiousness and corsets.

HI "Blackadder for the stage" ^ The Stage Monday 9 to Sunday 29 August (not Tuesdays) Box Office Venue 82 mf | ZW JH Komedia@Southside m \0 ir- JfflP 117 Nicolson Street

The witches of Macbeth^., like you’ve never seen!

78at 3,00 pm £6 (cone £5) box office: venue 0131 226.6522 fringe 0131 226,5138..

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PERFORMANCE EXCHANGE Venue 40 - The Quaker Meeting House,Victoria Terrace Tickets 220 6109 ooo©oJll ★ ■ and FOOL LEAR Clown-comic, Kingdependancy, (if the clownmadness, fits).

Fool LearAND - an exploration laughter,Joker-fool, love, passion, salvation. the ofstrangest Aug 23-28Great 21.00visuals (22.00)and£5.50 (£4.00) double act this side of the Bard.

PICKLED ONIONS THEATRE PROJECT ®Q©©0 Venue 41 - Hil Street Theatre, 19 Hil Street Tickets 226 6522 HI0 ★popPICKLED ONIONS THEATRE PROJECT Amagic, comedy about costumes a female group trapped since 1965 inside a song.

Music, eccentric and three professional actorsCompany,The who betweenRoyal them National have 110andyearsRoyal experience with Court.

Aug The 7-30Royal (not Shakespeare 19) 21.45 (23.05) £6.00 (£5.00) PLATFORM ONE THEATRE COMPANY ©0©©0 Venue 19 - C, Over-Seas House, 100 Princes Street Tickets 225 5105 110 ★intimidated THUMPING Moray Short is trapped in his home by phobia and delusion, and threatened by the outside world.

An irreverent and physically powerful of fear and fabrication.

Eastern Daily.

'Should4-30notportrayal be missed' Eveningincluding News.'Electrifying' Aug 00.30 (01.30)Eastern £6.00 (£5.00) free shot of Tequila PLEASANCE FESTIVAL OF THEATRE 99 ©0©©0 Venue 33 - Pleasance,60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550 U4 GOB FIRE PRODUCTIONS Ex-Take That star JasonTheOrange ('Times) Superb'-andFRIENDLY What' s On ' M agnetic' London Metro, ' E xuberantly impassioned' on-stageTheDJ Guardian.Time liberate the senses up-for-itChoice. blast at highbrow culture.

'Previews A 70-minute Out Critics' Aughigh' 4-6 23.15 (00.15) 23.15 £5.00(00.15) Aug 7,8,10-12,15-19,22,24-26 £8.00 Aug 13,14,20,21,27-30 23.15 (00.15) £9.00 (£8.00) (£7.00) ★ SKIN AND Posingisolated as an byartist, Roy the stattooist contemplates his misspent youth asINKink? a man 70sNSDF Women' Lib.Charlotte Should women trust their skin with his A new play by finalist Harris.

Previews Aug 4,5 16.05 (17.00) 16.£3.50 Aug £6.00 (£5.00) Aug 6-8,10-12,15-19,22,24-26 13,14,20,21,27-30 16.05 (17.00)05 (17.00) £7.00 (£6.00) ★Edinburgh ■ MADhitMARGARET' S MARKETING MISTAKE minifrom the and makers of Theshow Jolly onFollythe ofFringe' Polly the-Another Scottish Trolley Dolly ***** ' S hortest sweetest The Guardian.

Starring Kerry Joy Stewart (BBC I' s The Gate Keeper).

Previews 5,6 18.35(19.15) £3.5018.35 (19.15) £6.00 (£5.00) Aug Aug 7,8,10-12,15-19,22,24-26 13,14,20,21,27-30 18.35 (19.15) £7.00 (£6.00) FATloner HAMLET An original talebyofamissed and guardian Aa★love sad is mysteriously visited sadisticplayopportunities stranger bearing news andandangels. of Italian cuisine.

A new darkly comic part Bard, part Faust part The Odd Couple.

Aug 00 (14.00)£6.50£6.00 Aug 5-8,10-12 13,14 13.0013.(14.00) (£5.50)(£5.00) ★SheROCKET GIRL by Julie Balloo. happenedwereto the Jacky'bargains s mother? went 1961 inandtheWhatever never returned, good or didshopping NASAfirst.back have ain hand mystery?

Valentina Tereshkova movethatover, you weren' t the Preview Aug 6 15.15(16.15) 15.£3.50 Aug 15 (16.15)£7.00£6.00 Aug 7-9,11,12,15-19,22-26 13,14,20,21,27-30 15.15 (16.15) (£6.00)(£5.00) LESLIE PHILLIPS IN ON THE WHOLE IT' BEENObit)JOLLY GOOD by 1998ofFringe First winnerThePeter (TheS Last he funniest writer his generation' Times.Tinniswood Chrys Salt directs for Bare'TBoards.

Poignant.

Funny.

Risque.

Previews Aug 4,5 14.40 (15.35) £4.50 Aug 0 (15.35) Aug 6-8,10-12,15,17-19,22,24-26 13,14,20,21,27-30 14.40 (15.35)14.4£8.00 (£7.00)£7.00 (£6.00) ■Hands SHIBBOLETH SQUARE: AN URBAN FAIRYTALE A skylight up and'Samout.Beckett A manmeets standsJohn awkwardly the Telegraph rooftops, tearsopens. falling ongripping his shoes.

Cleese' onBelfast 'Aug A tantalising piece of theatre' Irish Times.

(16.05) £7.00 £6.00 (£6.00) (£5.00) Aug 23-26 27-30 14.14.5500 (16.05) ■acclaimed WOMEN OF TROY: 2099 An adaptation of Euripides' Trojan Women by writer now Courttia play ofago.war, revenge, courage love.HaraAs Theatre relevant as it Newland. was 3,000Ayears A new production byandthelostRiggs O'Aug Company.

18.50 (20.05) £6.00 (£5.00) Aug 10-12,15,17-19,22,24-26 13,14,20,21,27-30 18.50 (20.05) £6.50 (£5.50) ★ ■ CARby- award THEATRE ABSOLUTE High octanePlayed dialogue breakneck and anarchicspeed, storyline writerand Chrisdesperation O'Connell. grinding thewinning excitement of 4 ladsatstealing a car, each onPreviews their together own separate crash course.

Aug 5,6 16.00(17.10) £5.00 16.00 (17.10) £6.50 (£5.00) Aug 7-9,11,12,15,16,18,19,22,23,25,26 Aug 13,14,20,21,27-30 16.00 (17.10) £7.50 (£6.50)

Theatre

iff ★LastOPEN BOX THEATRE LOVE TO MADELEINE by Craig Warner. performed featuring Miranda Richardson and Richard Ea Grant, Open Box Theatre brings you this wryly observed, witty look at how woman can twist two very different men around one little finger.

Aug 22-26 14.30 (15.00) £4.00 (£3.00) Aug 27-30 14.30 (15.00) £5.00 (£4.00) PLAY WISTY FOR ME:THE OF PETER Cook' s life told through his'Extraordinary, characters.

'Htouching, ilarious'LIFE Independent.

'Kincisive' illinglyCOOK funny and tragic' Scotsman. engaging and Humphrey Barclay, LWT. LWT Comedy Writing Award Nominee and total Aug 12.00 (13.00) £6.50sell-out (£5.50)'98.

Aug 4-8,10-12,15,17-19,22-26 13,14,20,21,27-30 12.00 (13.00) £7.50 (£6.50) THE DEVIL & BILLY MARKHAM

by ShelandSilverstein.

Follow a luckless country-western star through Heaven,breaks Hell, theAstreets of Nashville gambles with the Devil and ultimately even. mesmerising romp asfromhe America' s acclaimed author.

Previews Aug 4,5 11.30 (12.30) £3.00 Aug 1,12,15-19,22,23,25,26 0 (12.30) Aug 6-9,1 13,14,20,21,27-30 11.30 (12.30)11.3£6.50 (£5.50)£6.00 (£5.00) BIRMINGHAM STAGE COMPANY: SPEED-THE-PLOW

by David Mamet. hisFilmtemporary producerssecretary.

Gould and'A Fox make a betproduction' on whetherSalisbury Gould can seduce mesmerising Journal ''SIrresistible' izzling performances' Birmingham Post ' H ilarious and shocking Venue Preview AugBath10 Chronicle.

14.20 (15.40) 14.20 £4.00 (15.40) £7.00 (£6.00) Aug Aug 11,12,15-19,22,23,25,26 13,14,20,21,27-30 14.20 (15.40) £8.00 (£7.00) ■fullHOIPOLLOI LIVING LIKE VICTOR A hilarious whodunnit comedy ofadventurous false moustaches, wigs that'ifallngeniously off and horses!

Hoipolloi' s funniest and most show to date, and deliciously inventive' Independent on Sunday, 'a joy to watch'15.4What' s On £6.00 in London.

Aug 5-8,10-12,15,17-19,22,24-26 0 (17.00) (£5.00) Aug 13,14,20,21,27-30 15.40 (17.00) £7.00 (£6.00) ■DREAMING 7:84THEATRE COMPANY SCOTLAND - CALEDONIA

by David Greig.

7:84'Connery. s hit production of '97.devolution, Six characters searchor the streets of Edinburgh for Sean Independence, union... just a milkman from Fountainbridge? ' S lick, quick and very funny' The Scotsman.

Preview AugII, 512,15,16,18,19,22,23,25,26 17.30 (19.05) £5.00 Aug 30 (19.05) £8.00 (£5.00) Aug 6,7,9, 13,14,20,21,27-29 17.30 (19.05) £9.0017.(£6.00) ENGLISH SHAKESPEARE COMPANY INTERNATIONAL ANDRONICUS Babies cooked in pies andthatfedmake to their mother, rape,- TITUS dismemberment and blinding!

Ingredients up this powerful, performed Directed by Malachi Bogdanov, winnerseldom of last year' s16-19,22,23,25,26 HeraldShakespeare Angel Award.Shocker.

Aug 14.

1 0 (15.30) Aug 20,21,27-30 14.10 (15.30) £6.00 £5.00 ★Times.

■ LOADED

by David Bown.

'Loaded with ambition' Robertcomes Hewison, Sunday From the multi-award winning playwright David Bown another play Loaded ' a comic yet not so comic violence' winner of the Peggy Ramsay Playwriting Prize 1999. Presented by Northampton Arts Centre.

Aug 30 (13.50) Aug 11,12,15,16,18,19,22,23,25,26 13,14,20,21,27-30 12.30 (13.50) 12.£7.00 (£5.00) £6.00 (£5.00) HUGEagentby Jez Butterworth.When yourpartner comedywould career'rather s heading your refuses yourRorycalls,Kinnear, and your worknowhere, with chickens: think Huge.

Ben Davis resurrect this award-winning examination of loyalty and success.

Biting, topical, hilarious.

Previews Aug 4-6 13.15(14.15) 13.£4.00 Aug £6.00 (£5.00) Aug 7,8,10-12,15,17-19,22-26 13,14,20,21,27-30 13.15 (14.15)15 (14.15) £7.00 (£6.00) ★CHARLIE ■ FIRERAISERSTHEATRE COMPANY - THE&SECRET LIFE turn OF CHAPLIN George Dillon, Finty Williams Pollyin Andrew Wiseman the spotlight on the scandal that rocked I920' s Holywood, Visnevski' s highly visual mixing£4.00 live action and film to startling effect.

Preview Augproduction, 7 14.5014.(16.05) Aug 8-12,15,17-19 5 0 (16.05) £6.00 (£5.00) Aug 13,14,20,21 14.50 (16.05) £7.00 (£6.00) SHOESTRING - KING STAGof talking Fringe animals, First winners returnlovers, with their adaptation ofandPLAYERS Gozzi' ssmart classic fairytale desperate heartless villians, one parrot.

Family fun ' a nyone too old to enjoy Shoestring is too old altogether!' NYTimes.

Aug 12.25 £7.00 (13.40)(£6.00) £6.00 (£5.00) Aug 8,10-12,15,17-19,22,24-26 13,14,20,21,27-30 12.25 (13.40) EDWARD PETHERBRIDGE IN MR DICKENS/ MR SHAKESPEARE ACrams one man spectacular.

'ADickens' masterly'Doctor actor with a resonance 75 minutes with Marigold' and the ofpuresoul'goldCliveof Barnes.

Shakespeare. ' A n actor without dross' Washington Post.

Preview Aug 5 13.05 (14.20) £4.00 Aug 13.05 (14.20) £7.50 (£6.00) Aug 6-8,10-12,15-19,22,24-26 13,14,20,21,27-30 13.05 (14.20) £8.50 (£7.00) PLEASANCE FESTIVAL OF THEATRE ‘99 continues over the page 101

Theatre PLEASANCE FESTIVAL OF THEATRE ‘99 continued ■ JADE - LIKE CANDYFLOSS 'A smallsell-out worldhitwhere big, another things happen in★ Technicolor' . Following anarchic, poignant, romantic,award-nominated, farcical,*****' visualThecomedy - with'V'Geryrace' songs.

'Wonderfully witty, coherent, uplifting... a delight Scotman. original' Time Out. Preview Aug 4 14.

0 0 (15.20) £5.00 Aug 5-8,10-12,15,17-19,22,24-26 14.

0 0 (15.20) £6.50 (£5.50) Aug 13,14,20,21,27,28 14.00 (15.20) £7.50 (£6.50) ■of RIDICULUSMUS -time THEwithEXHIBITIONISTS Four attendants inanda gallery modern pass theincluded, dancing,Y-fangle yodellingemptiness' soap opera.

Free artThe elevenses 'an ballroom existential metaphor of everyday Neil Cooper, Times ' * ***ing brilliant' Mon in audience, Castlebar.

Preview Aug 5 10.45 (11.45) 10.£0.50 Aug 45 (11.45) Aug 6-8,10-12,15-19,22-26 13,14,20,21,27-30 10.45 (11.45) £6.50£6.00 (£3.50)(£3.00) LIFETIME THEATRE BATH TIME A powerful new play by Mary McNally. personal movingwoman. portrayal the conflict Northern the A eyes of5-12oneand16.30(17.10) young Fionaof(£4.00) invites us intoin the world ofIreland dreamsthrough and survival.

Aug £5.00 Aug 13,14 16.30(17.10) £6.00 (£5.00) THE Lowe' NATION' S FAVOURITE:THE ADVENTURES RADIO I Alex s adaptation ofentertainment Simon Garfield'TRUE s bestseller ('Hbehind ilariouslyTheOFbitchy' Magazine).

Chart-topping from the team WrestlingQ ('Previews Hugely entertaining' News of the World).

Tune in for the real story.

Aug 4,5 18.15 (19.15) 18.£3.50 Aug 15 (19.15) £7.00 (£6.00) Aug 6-8,10-12,15-19,22,24-26 13,14,20,21,27-30 18.15 (19.15) £8.00 (£7.00) SOLENTArthur' PEOPLE' S aTHEATRE LIONHEART 1998 - missed Englandtrains, v.

Argentina. s gotunrequited ticket andlovehe'- from s pissed. missed penalties and one Aofcomedy the UK'sofmost popular touring companies.

Preview Aug 5 11.45 (12.45) £5.00 Aug 11.45 (12.45) £6.00 (£5.00) Aug 6-8,10-12,15-19,22,25,26 13,14,20,21,27-30 11.45 (12.45) £7.00 (£5.00) ■become PSYCHO ON!s On.'Deliciously sex comedy... to a cult BABBLE classic' What' Anmodern innocentridiculous young couple intodeserves clutches ofOrton' 2 deranged sex therapists in this bedroom farce. fall'Carry Onthemeets .

Co-directed by Edward Hardwicke.

Contains nudity.

Preview Aug 5 23.10 (00.15) £5.00 Aug 6-9,11,12,15,16,18,19,22,23,25,26 (00.15) £6.50 (£5.00) Aug 13,14,20,21,27-30 23.10 (00.15) £7.5023.10(£6.00) SCO M E D I A presents DYBALL & KERR in

★ LITTLE classic.

WOMEN Premiere.

Reeves' dynamic .adaptation of Alcock' s bittersweet 'Wrebels. omen shouldEmma learnAmy to wants be agreeable' but wants Jo would be fighting Southern Meanwhile, Laurie ..who Jo...rather The ever-popular family story, directed by Andrew Loudon.

Aug 30 (13.00) £5.00 Aug 7-12,15,17,18,19,22,24,25,26 13,14,20,21,27-30 11.30 (13.00)I 1.£6.00 ★Shakespeare: SHAKESPEARE' S BOTTOM Thomas Bowdler sister it'bowdlerised tookin.outContains all the rude bits. vulgarity, 200 years later,andtheyhiscross-gartering, decide s timedeath to put them allarranging. back laughter, innuendo, and flower Preview Aug 6 14.

0 0 (15.00) £3.00 Aug 1, 12,15-19 14.00 (15.00) £6.00 (£5.00) Aug 7-9,1 13,14,20 14.00 (15.00) £7.00 (£6.00) ★knewTHEyouTREEHOUSE When you children, youCollin love more thans published you had love in- you.' onhave BBC collection of stories 'QSunday. uiteBased magically done'playwright Miles Kington,TheJohnson' Independent. **** Jenny Diski, Mail on Previews Aug 4,5 14.15(15.15) 14.£3.50 Aug £6.00 (£5.00) Aug 6-8,10-12,15,17-19,22-26 13,14,20,21,27-30 14.15 (15.15)15 (15.15) £7.00 (£6.00) ■bodyGRAEAE/FITTINGS THE FINAL FREAKSHOW aboutandthe beautiful.

Roll opera up forabout this post-modern morality play ofOpera monsters prodigies - schlock a body beautiful withmillennium a twist.

Fittings a performance and visual arts spectacular to end the with a isbang.

Aug 7,8,10-12,15,17-19 15.

3 0 (16.30) £5.00 (£3.00) Aug 19.00 (20.00) £5.00 (£3.00) Aug 6,8,10-12,15,17-19 13,14,20,21 19.15.0300 (20.00) (16.30) £6.00 (£4.00) (£4.00) Aug 13,14,20,21 £6.00 ★ ■ ORCADIA IN RAINBOW RIDER A nativeCreative AmericanLearning legendCentre in word,for dance, mask andpeople spirit, by theadults students of Orcadia children, young and with learning disabilities and special needs.

Come23-28 and walk good £7.00 red road(£4.50) with Rainbow Rider.

Aug 19.00the(20.30) ★SHERLOCK ■ THE AMERICAN DRAMA MURDER OF bawdy, HOLMES Fresh fromGROUP sell-out-THE world tour, this everyone lively, bloody musical adaptation isaguaranteed to entertain from 9Previews - 90. 'VanderyAugfunny exciting, entertaining theatre' South China Morning Post.

4,5 14.

0 0 (15.30) £4.00 Aug (15.30) £7.00 (£6.00) Aug 6-9,11,12,15,16,18,19,22,23,25,26 13,14,20,21,27-30 14.00 (15.30) £8.0014.00(£7.00) ■chance THEbefore AMERICAN DRAMA GROUP BRAVE NEWof the WORLD 2000 to catch authorised stagewithversion Huxley'The s last masterpiece- onfuturistic, its world tour.theHighly visualat itsand a pumping techno soundtrack dramatic theatre best.

Preview Aug 8 12.00 (13.30)12.£4.00 Aug 00 (13.30)£8.00£7.00(£7.00) (£6.00) Aug 10-12,15-19,22,24-26 13,14,20,21,27-30 12.00 (13.30) GREAT LIVES THEATRE presents THE VISIT TO PICASSO

by RSC actor Gary Taylor [visited |~b^ irtist "Absorbingly powerful, a masterful portrayal" BBC Radio Scotland 5COMEDI A@SOUTH SIDs Street. Tickets AURORA THEATRE USA presents MACBETH

THE MODERN MALE EXPOSED "Set to be big... go and see them" THE SCOTSMAN

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;<OMED(A@$OUTH$lDE Venue 82 • 117 Nicholson Street • Box Office 0131 667 2212

★ HUNGRY PRODUCTIONS - REDNEXcan'AND The President' sHORSE plane isinsane Going Downthe- thePresWhitehouse tmen findPOLITICS him. for Saved by sane Survivalists in an world, & his two best fight survival amidst religion, romance, intrigue and Inbreeding.

Previews Aug 4-7 17.

2 5 (18.25) £3.00 Aug 17.25 £7.00 (18.25)(£6.00) £6.00 (£5.00) Aug 8,10-12,15,17-19,22,24-26 13,14,20,21,27-30 17.25 (18.25) ★ ARTTS INTERNATIONAL THE DAY OFagainst ATONEMENT Do things 1I ever change? l935:The Kaufmann family struggle the anti-Semitism Mosley.

1999: David Booth must confront the racism he sees all around him.of Two this hard Aug lives 5-1 I interconnect 11.00(12.00)in£4.50 (£4.00)hitting new play. ★ ■ play THEabout PAYNE AND HAIGHT CIRCUSto cope Hysterically funny andtimes. shocking I new twotheatre feudingthat clowns struggling with changing Incredible physical examines the terrifying border between comedy |I Aug and tragedy.

Not suitable13.0for0 (13.50) children.£6.00 (£5.00) 10-12,15-19,22 Aug 13,20,21 13.00 (13.50) £6.50 (£5.50) POCKET MERCURY PRODUCTIONS ®0©©0 Venue 47 - The Cafe Royal, 17 West Register Street Tickets S56 2549 112 ★Festival OMBUDSMAN' S FLIES Black comedy

by Louise Ramsden (1998 'Choice' Winner Royal Court, London).

Present (pre-zent) n/adj: a gift, or J awkward phase past and future Exciting new writing asks questions about between breakfast, bigotry, breaststime? and Biggies.

Preview 14.15(15.45) Aug 6-30Aug14.155 (15.45) £5.00 Free (£4.00) Suitable for ages 12+ POUNDS, DOLLARS AND CENTS ®0©©0 Venue 21 - Roman Eagle Lodge, 2 Johnston Terrace Tickets 226 7207 K10 OCTOPUS PIE Recently performed to sell-out audiences in London, Oliver II games Snowball'theys Octopus Pie presents the ultimate dysfunctional family and the play toabsurd, settle old scores. A zany mixture of farce, comedy of |j Aug manners 6-22and19.the 15 (20.15) £6.00 (£5.00) ' Venue 4 - C too, St Columba's by the Castle, Johnston Terrace Tickets 225 5105 K10 RIME new OF THE ANCIENT MARINER Coleridge explodes into || through life★ ■in THE thistheunique adaptation.

Join the Mariner on his quest for meaning doors of perception, and experience | genius. st. (£4.00) the vision of a Romantic Aug 5-21'****(notGenuinely Suns) talented' 11.15(12.05)The Li£5.00

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Theatre PRESENT COMPANY EXCEPTED 00©©0 Venue 28 - Greyfriars Kirk House, Candlemaker Row Tickets 225 3626 Kl I ★intense COUSIN ANNA is a mood play exploring the intrusion of illness into an female friendship.yearning Unusuallythe structured 'movements' suffuced withofromantic play is set inin aten19thshortcentury Italian and countryside the23)imagination.

Aug 17-30 (not 13.45 (14.45) £5.00 (£3.00) QMWTHEATRE COMPANY 000©0 Venue 45 - Old St. Paul's Church & Hall,Jeffrey Street Tickets 556 0476 JI3 Afor.MIDSUMMER DREAMS NIGHT Shakespeare with a don' soundtrack to diethe Night clubs, hostesses, clubbers and drugpushers.

If you t remember Dream23-28 like this12.0maybe time to(£3.50) see it again... Original, fast-moving and fun!

Aug 0 (13.15)it's £5.50 ★CakeFATis optional).

Three new'Dshort stories about and Judymoments, Finniganbreathtaking' (Chocolate evastating... Stunning...love,thelifefunnier Sheffield Electronic Press.

Aug 23-28 13.30 (14.30) £5.50 (£3.50) ★ AVAILABLE RoyalKarolanne Court produced playwright brings you play about two women.intoEXITS Beth retreat further further froma the world ofofreality, theirandelaborately constructed fantasy,andthrough games of powers memory.

Aug 23-28 14.45 (15.45) £5.50 (£3.50) QUEST THEATRE COMPANY ®0©©Q Venue 41 - Hil Street Theatre, 19 Hil Street Tickets 226 6522 HI0 ★presented ■ WATERLOO STATION A new comedy with incidental music, by award-winning Quest.

A stormy evening; six colourful characters and a dogWhostranded.They plot to get the Rich Texan's money. Who's got the money?

Aug 7-30 (notgets19)Sexy16.3Sarah?

0 (17.30) £7.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 15+

RAPID CLASSICS OOOOO Venue 49 - Bedlam Theatre, I lb Bristo Place Tickets 225 9893 LI I MACBETH Start your day with this fast, physical adaptation of Shakespeare' s story of obsessive love and ambition.

Watch as Macbeth is chopped up, sawn-off and Shakespeare' they say.

Augdecapitated, 9-14 10.45 alongside (11.55) £4.00 (£2.00) s text. It will have blood,Suitable for. ages 8+ RAVEN CREST PRODUCTIONS OOO©® Iflie bluffy Srotfasrs Venue 123 - Rocket Venue @ South Bridge Resource Ctr, Infirmary Street Tickets 558 9991 K13 ★starGENOME ...Nature? ...or Nurture?

Melanie Dale Glover and Joe Collins a new18.20 play written and directed Aug in23-28 (19.40) £6.00 (£4.00) by Ellis Sanford.

Witless fresh, RAW THEATRE COMPANY OOO©® innovative Venue twerps 49 - Bedlam Theatre, I lb Bristo Place Tickets 225 9893 LI I ★ BOOTS, BOOTS, KINKY BOOTS! A story of leather uppers and your kinky GARY BUSHELL and very soles. Witness a wild journey from the factory floor to the catwalk. Heel with lively comedy and toe-tapping music. Based on a true story. Free funny soles breakfast!

Aug 23-28 10.30 (11.45) £6.00 (£4.00) JONATHON ROSS REJECTS REVENGE THEATRE COMPANY OQ©©0 Venue 82 - Komedia @ Southside, 117 Nicolson Street Tickets 667 2212 M12 WHOREDOM Double Fringe First winners present a hilarious bawdy Elizabethan love,tolicentiousness andsilplans. fittingContains corsets, strong as twosexual harlots hijack history'tale in oforder the references.

Blackadder forbash the £5.00 stage'bishop' The Stage.

Preview Aug 8 15.

3 5 (16.55) Aug 9-29 (not Tues) 15.35 (16.55) £8.00 (£6.00) ■ PEASOUPER It's back! performances only! The masters of physical stupidity give you their FringeSixlaughs First winning, internationally acclaimed murder mystery epic. ' S upplies more than any comedian on the Fringe' London Evening Standard ' I shouted hurrah.Twice.'

The Times.

MICHAEL Aug 23-29 (not 24) 22.20 (23.35) £8.00 (£6.00) Suitable for ages 11 + TOMBS FINALIST in the Daily Telegraph Open Mic & the Jongleurs Award “I laughed more than I had in years” Fosseway Magazine -30 August (not 16)1 Opm at The Gilded Balloon, 233 Cowgate. Edinbur Fringe Ticket Office: 0131 226 5138 Gilded Balloon Tickets: 0131 225 2151

RESERVOIR SWANS ®0©00 Venue 41 - Hil Street Theatre, 19 Hil Street Tickets 226 6522 HIO ★housewife, THE BIGGER ISSUE Self obsession threatens chaos when a bored suicidal aristocrat and an4African tramp meet millenniumseeks midnight. RSC/Complicite/Channel In Exileand actormorality.

PatriceonNaiambana common in this comedy of betrayal Aug 7-18ground 22.35 (23.45) £5.50 (£3.50) 103

Theatre (DO©©© REXANA PRODUCTIONS no Venue 19 - C, Over-Seas House, 100 Princes Street Tickets 225 5105 ★ NEW AGEthan ROMANCE

by Michealnew Korvin.

Breathe through your stomach: feel life rather think it.

Provocative French comedy about the quirky search truth and meaning, trailing one man and his best friend - a gay dog.

British4-30for premiere.

Aug (not 17) 20.15 (21.25) £7.00 (£5.00) RIDICULUSMUS 00©©0 Venue 62 - Continental Shifts at St Bride's, 10 Orwell Terr. Tickets 346 1405 K5 ★depressed ■ YES,YES,YES Excitable bundle of confused identity and his manically friend attempt to explain life.

Also see Pleasance entry.

On Ridiculusmus 'goes Completely dis-shevelled' Ian Shuttleworth.

'Madcap, stuff Ulster. 'Chaotic sheer vitality'Suitable Irish Times.

Aug 9-14anything 22.00 (23.00) £6.00BBC(£3.00) for ages 10+ Venue 32 Continental Shi f t s at Spri n gwel l House.

A rdmillan Terrace, off Gorgie Rd. Tickets 346 1405 (St Brides) L3 ★ ■ YES,YES,YES Aug 16-28 (not 22) 16.00 (17.00) £6.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 10+ THE RIOT GROUP OO©©© Venue 81 - The Garage Theatre, Grindlay Court Centre, Grindlay Street Tickets 221 9009 K9 ★ routine WRECKflightTHEturnsAIRLINE BARRIER Mid-air disaster and Mind motivational Control.

Aspeakers intoairline a bloody battle andbetween a psychotic staff.

Riot between Group: 'a three dazzlingAmerican polyphony that fluctuates harmony and discord... truly breathtaking' The Scotsman.

Aug 8-29 19.30 (20.45) £5.00 (£4.00) ROCKET VENUES OO©©© Venue 123 - Rocket Venue @ South Bridge Resource Ctr, Infirmary Street Tickets 558 9991 KI3 ★loverBERYL MARKHAM Racedangerous horse trainer,African pioneer, airplane pilot of many damned dame. Presented Irwinandof...' of the Down &15.Do0men.

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Double-billed with Beryl Markham.

Aug 16.00 (with (17.00)Beryl£5.00Markham) (£4.00) £7.00 Double9-14Bil Price ★Caverns.

THE VAMPIRE ORTHE BRIDE OF Passion. Sunsets.

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What isyou the find inexplicable allure of theDEATH palely handsome SirtheEdward Clevedon?

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Aug 23-28 15.45 (16.20) £5.00 (£3.00) ★ ATHENA LIVE!It'sMurder, infidelity, intigue... is it Ancient Greek drama or daytime television?

Live' a comedy 'ThebyOresteia' Aeschylus, in the States. context'Athena, of a modern televisionsetting talkshow, Tapit/ newby works, from the United Aug 9-14 22.05 (23.25) £6.00 (£4.50) ★ FALLING asOUT OF THE ageDARK The trueAstory of Christine who was misdiagnosed schizophrenic twenty-one. diagnosis reached in colusion.

Forty years later, following heavy medication, ECT and a fresh diagnosis, Christine to rebuild life.

Aug 9-13 attempts 14.10(14.50) £4.00her(£3.00) ★by HIRTA by Napier Drama Society.

The dark Utopian bliss of St Kilda isofshattered the arrival of two reminiscent sinister outsiders. compelling suspicion, betrayal murder of theAisland' sandlegendary I930'tales evacuation.

Aug 9-14and20.25 (21.25) £4.50 (£3.50) ADULT DEADof the CHILD 'When you are ofa child...'

Physical theatre presents anCHILD, exploration humour and pathos becoming an adult.

Six actors portray one character.' . .. you don' t get any love' .

Aug 23-28 12.20 (13.30) £5.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 13+ SEXUAL PERVERSITY INin CHICAGO David talk, Mamet' s comedy sexual liaison affects the way which four people think and feelabout abouthow sex. a AAugraunchy explicit 9-14 and16.4occasionally 5 (17.45) £6.50 (£4.50)production performed at a cracking pace. ★production ■ DR FAUSTUS meets theregretted twentiethselling century in thisto the high-tech of the manFaustus whoweultimately his soul power and knowledge.

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Aug 23-30 10.30 (12,00) £5.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 12+ ABIGAIL' S PARTY Thesplendour. i. CollectiveBeverly inviteandyouLawrence to join usarein hosting Mike Leigh's evening of 70' s suburban ofAugfive.23-28 Bring 18.a friend - the£5.00 more(£3.00) the merrier - well have a knees up this party 00 (19.10) 104

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Music, magic and a dwarf or two in this enchanting SN^W production from the team who brought you last year’s hit Rumpelstiltskin - ‘Clever, WHITE witty and inventive, you honestly don’t need to adapted by Olivia Jacobs be a child to enjoy it’ ★ ★ ★ ★ The S 6-30 August 3.15pm Could you live your life by telling nothing but the truth? An internet truth cult sweeps the TRfflTH world in a provocative new play from the writer of Alice and Mr jby Toby Mitchell Dodgson - 'A subtle and enigmatic play' ★ ★ ★ ★ The Scotsman ‘TALL stories nue126 CAPTURE A JOHN'S prinnces Street RARE MAGIC’ m THE SCOTSMAN \^>|22 225 5105

Theatre Venue 16 - Rocket Venue @ Theatre Arts Centre, 10 Davie Street Tickets 667 6666 ★ ■ ARNabolitionist T I A WOMAN? A ones rights woman showSojourner portrayingTruth. the African American and women' 'Anike's performance as Sojourner was oneWashington of the activist most moving theatrical experiences ofAug my16-21 entire 13.life' George Brader, Post.

05 (14.05) £5.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 10+ ★ ■ LUNCH Butterfly present 'Lunch'A hot : a short playof by Steven Berkoff.

ACanned chance encounterProductions onouta deserted beach... house voluptuous energy.

Two strangers play their twisted fantasies to escape their festering exotic12.15(13.15) meal. £6.00 (£4.00) Aug 9-28lives. (notAnSuns) RICHARD III JoinasShakespeare' sandmostpsychotic popularRichard villain inofhisGloucester bloody bidmurders for the crown the twistedsedition hisAugway9-28oftoEngland, the top.

Seduction, and, of course, a horse... (not Suns) 13.45 (16.10) £5.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 12+ Venue 123 - Rocket Venue @ South Bridge Resource Ctr, Infirmary Street Tickets 5S8 9991 K13 ★ ■ TRAINSPOTTING Based on the tells infamous Scottish novel by Irvine Welsh, darker than the Afilm,Trainspotting the tales addicts andtheunderclass. mustt show. for those who want to seeof Edinburgh the side ofdrug Edinburgh Festival doesn' Aug Aug 9-14 16-21 18.10(19.55) 22.40 (00.25) £6.00 (£5.00) NO EXIT The premiere of the new translation offind Sartre' s classic.

Locked in a with room,British a lesbian, an adulterer andvibrant, a baby-killer themselves confronted our basic instincts.

Brutal, sexual: a shameless exploration self. £4.50 (£3.50) Aug 9-14 17.of1the 5 (18.30) ROSCIAN PRODUCTIONS ©Q©©0 Venue 126 - C cubed, St John's Hall,West End, Princes Street Tickets 225 5105 19 ★ DIMINISHED RESPONSIBILITY Secrets and lies, without hidden hopes and fears rise to the surface after a mysterious road accident a victim.

Just who is Award-winning hiding what fromnewwhom of urban mythsfor and friendship? writing.in Fisher'11.s00wry(11.tale Aug 6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30 50) £5.00 Suitable (£4.00) ages 12+ ★honeymoon, TILL DEATH US DO PART A Caribbean wedding, a romantic twoleads weeksto offatalsun,consequences.The sea and...? Weddingnewdreams turn tohighly-charged nightmares as humanfromerror passionate, thriller Willcocks and Lovett. '****' TheI 1.0Scotsman.

Aug 7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,23,25,27,29 0 (11.50) £5.00 (£4.00) THE ROSE THEATRE COMPANY 00©©0 Venue 35 - Edinburgh Rudolf Steiner School, 60/64 Spylaw Road 03 ■by THIRTEEN MIRRORS A total theatre pieces story for 11ofactors, this inproduction an international touring cast sets Eschenbach' the Grail the year 2005.

With original text, choreography, live music and lighting, this is true theatre of transformation.

Aug 17-25 20.00 (22.30) £ 10.00 (£5.00) ROWAN STUDIO 00©©0 Venue 40 - The Quaker Meeting House,Victoria Terrace Tickets 220 6109 J11 * ■s all!ROMEO ANDbutJULIET:THE NURSE' S aSTORY Exclusive -byNurse tell' This bawdy loving character is given fresh perspective Sue Emmy Jennings, directed

by RSC's Andrew Wade. A startling and unique interpretation this classic Aug 9-28 (notofSuns) 14.30 story.

(15.30) £5.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 11 + THE ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY oo@©o OF MUSIC & DRAMA JI5 Venue 13 - Harry Younger Hall, Lochend Close, Canongate Tickets 07050 161320 THE TRIAL by Steven Berkoff from Franz Kafka. ' S omeone must have been lying...' ' T here must be some mistake!'

W e all have a nightmare of guilt: ' T he Trial' makes it real. Presented by the£3.00 RSAMD Master of Drama (Acting) Course.

Previews (13.50) Aug 15-21Aug18.412,14 0 (20.20)12.00£5.00 (£3.00) (£ 1.00) ★Romanian ■ FISHactor ON Alin DRYOlteanu WATERexplores A storytheoftranslation magic, mystery, power, death, water... mask-man.

Presented by14.the RSAMD£3.00 Master(£1.00) of Dramabetween (Acting) myth-flesh, Course.

Previews Aug 13,14 3 0 (15.30) Aug 15-21 20.45 (21.45) £5.00 (£3.00) ★ ■ GOD LOVE THATCHER! (FADEepicTOwith GREEK) A newintrusions translation of Aristophanes' 'Thefriends.

Birds'. ALong-debated hallucinatory Aristophanes and questions ofoccasional state craft and utopiabyare here resolved.

Presented by you know who.

Aug 17-21 17.30(18.15) £5.00 (£3.00) ★ ■ THEWhoCAGED BIRD Adaptation of Roddyexploration Doyle's Best-seller 'The Woman Walked Intoexplicit Doors' . A sensitive refreshing of anliftsabusive relationship.This visually and piece of theatre Doyle' s hard-hitting from the£4.00page(£2.00) to challenge our silence.

Aug 23-28 realism 12.30 (14.30)

Theatre SALLY VAUGHAN AND RICHARD JORDAN UMITED <DO©©0 Venue 3 - Assembly Rooms, 54 George Street Tickets 226 2428 111 SHYLOCK ***** Scotsman.

Gareth Armstong' s acclaimed one-man show directed by Frank Barrie returns to Edinburgh direct from its sell out success atEveryone the Hampstead and worldontour.

'An exceptional piece of theatre. should seeTheatre it1 Independent Aug 5 (13.25)£Sunday. (£8.00) Suitable for ages 12+ Aug 7-12,15-19,23-26,30 13,14,20-22,27-29 11.11.555(13.25) 10.£9.00 00 (£9.00) SCHHHH!THEATRE COMPANY OO0OO Venue 45 - Old St. Paul's Church & Hall, Jeffrey Street Tickets 556 0476 J13 ■ TWELFTHreturns NIGHT AtSchhhakespeare Noon! Midnightas you' Madness at Midday!

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Slapstick, sweet singing! Cross-dressing, talk and cross garters!12.15pm.

Schhhpecially composed newcross production!

Schhhtarts Aug 16-21 music!

12.15 Sparkling (13.45) £4.50 (£2.50) Suitable for ages 10+ SCOTTISH NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF YOUTH THEATRE ®QOOO F9 Venue 20 - Theatre Workshop, 34 Hamilton Place Tickets 226 5425 ■Drama, YOUTH THEATRE FESTIVAL The voice of youth in Scotland today!and musical and workshops by award-winning youth groups, directors playwrights.

Workshop detailsyouth contactculture.

Theatre WorkshopSuitable box office.

A 12+ celebration ofForScotland' s vibrant for ages ■- one WEST LOTHIAN YOUTH THEATRE FRIENDLY FIRE by Peter ofit Britain' s leading playwrights.

Directed

by Clyde Unity Theatre' s MariGill Binnie, is a gritty, powerful and moving love story of entangled sexualities between language.

Aug 6-11young 16.30people.

(17.40) Strong £5.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 12+ ★the■bestFIRE!of the- PALACE YOUTH THEATRE, KILMARNOCK Epitome of Fringe ' * ***" Scotsman 1998, bring their harrowing, hard-hitting, award-winning musical of love, pain and obsession to Fringe ' 9 9.

Written and directed s Chris Annetts.

Aug 8-14by 18.Patchwork 30 (19.30)Theatre' £5.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 13+ THEYSHOOT HORSES, DON’T THEY? A play by Ray Herman based on a novel by Horace McCoy GEORGE SQUARE THEATRE □ 131 BBS B74CD 7-30 AUGUST 4RM E:i8 UNDERGROUND A new devised play by Laurie Sansom and the NYT Company CHAPLAINCY CENTRE □ 131 BBS BBSS 14-30 AUGUST B. 30RM

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AFTER JULIET - COMMOTION (NORTHGuest,When AYRSHIREI Was YOUTH THEATRE)

By Sharman McDonald (Winter A Girl...)story of Romeo and Juliet are dead what happened next?

A vivid and powerful love and revenge with a contemporary twist.

Aug 12 14.30 (15.45) £5.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 13+ ROYAL LYCEUM YOUTH THEATRE - STONE MOON Kiri is trapped atale traditional marriage, in a society that rejects sexual love.

A delicate strongin seeks fulfillment.

By JudithforbutJohnson.

Augunfolds 12-14 as16.30she(17.20) £5.00 (£3.00)Can Kiri set herself free?Suitable ages 13+ PECKIN' FRIPPLE FRAPPLES!TOONSPEAKYOUNG PEOPLE' THEATRE (North Glasgow) present the shuffle Scottishthrough premieretheofseemingly the CrippleS of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh.A wicked stagnant life of cripple Billy and the cantankerous island community of Inishmaan.

Aug 13-14 14.30 (16.00) £5.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 13+ ★ ■ CHARACTER CODE ONEmaskWhat chance individuality inquest the for Technological Age? A multi-media improvisation about the identity, voicing the concerns of Scottish youth in the global village.

Aug 11-14 18.00 (18.45) £5.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 12+ ★ NOMADS, X-TANT After I998' s selloutjoinsuccess with 'Ccollaboration ontracts', 2 youth groups gay/bisexual/transgender & disabled in a unique John Binnie.

From life in the margins of society, NOMADS promises to be with exciting, sexy & hardhitting.

Aug 6-14 (not 8) 20.30 (21.30) £5.00 (£3.00) ★ SELF-SERVICE frominAYT andofPortMc. One petrol station on the ofimpossible.

Edinburgh.243hours brothers search a profit.

Customers in Production search of theoutskirts of pure mayhem.A Theatre Workshop 'demands seen' The£5.00List.(£3.00) Aug 6,7 to18.3be030(19.30) Aug (15.30) Aug 9-112-14I 14.12.30 (13.30) Suitable for ages 12+ ★the59scene MINUTES, 59 SECONDS by LochaberYouth Theatre.The attend of aAbizarre accident.fable It would be tragic if it wasn'and t sofalling funny,Police so intriguing, soAugsuspicious. multi-national of people, coincidence cattle.

7,8 14.30 (15.30) £5.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 12+

SEASONAL PRODUCTIONS ©o©©o Venue 23 - Chaplaincy Centre, I Bristo Square Tickets 662 8882 LI2 ROAD'RJim Cartwright' s blackest ofitcomedies.

Disturbing, movingsyetBritain. undeniably funny, oad' is as relevant today as was in the days ofThatcher' Aug 7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,23,25,27,29 13.00 (14.10) £6.00 (£4.00) ★ BROKEN s optimistic leavinginvites jail isussoon challenged the moralities of theJoe' world thatliving. heattitude faces.

'Bonroken' to forreflect oncompany thebybittersweet realities of modern A world premiere written the by Phil Porter.

Aug 7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,23,25,27,29 14.45 (15.40) £6.00 (£4.00) ★ HOWthrough I GOTjournalistic THAT STORY AmlinandGrey' s relentless two-handed journey hypocrisy contemporary use of warcomedic as entertainment.

A shocking, thought provokingthe premiere.

Aug 8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30 13.1UK 5 (14.10) £6.00 (£4.00) ★ READER

by Ariel Dorfman.At theandpersonal requestin 1998. of theSeasonal author following their mesmerising version of 'Deathpolitical thedrama, Maiden' Productions revive this unsettling tackling issues of censorship, justice and truth.

Aug 8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30 14.30 (15.40) £6.00 (£4.00) Venue 84 - Holyrood Tavern, Holyrood Road Tickets 557 4972 K13 ★1994THREE TALL WOMEN Inis alaidunique and hauntingandrevival of Edward Albee'as hit, the human condition bare by comedy pathos, as we watch figure clinging14.30to (16.20) the wrekage her life, refusing to go under.

Aug 6-29 £5.50 of(£4.50) SECOND NATURE 0O©OO Venue 21 - Roman Eagle Lodge, 2 Johnston Terrace Tickets 226 7207 K10 ★Wolfsong ■ WOLFSONG Hinging on the dark, evocative work of Angela Carter, tempts you into a mythic world of snarling lyricism, inviting your complicity in arcane rituals of ofadolescent self-awakening, into a sensuous performance provocative eroticism. and seducing you Previews Aug 6-8 19.10(19.40) £5.00 (£4.00) Previews Aug 6-8 19.45 (20.15) Aug Aug 9-15 9-15 19.10(19.40) 19.45 (20.15) £5.50 (£4.50)

HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL (LA)/REMBIK0 PROJECT (NY) PRESENTS Three Disciples Ascending an original full-length play

Theatre SHATTERED WINDSCREEN THEATRE COMPANY oo©oo Venue 45 - Old St. Paul's Church & Hall, Jeffrey Street Tickets 556 0476 J13 THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER BerkoffsAplaylittlefromlatePoe s classic tale of the impossible.

A death...

A resurrection... night horror from the nominated, on their last visit to Edinburgh, as Total s Bestcompany Newcomer.

Aug Theatre' 16-21 23.00 (23.55) £5.00 (£3.00) SHORT BACK & SIDES 00©©0 Venue 123 - Rocket Venue @ South Bridge Resource Ctr, Infirmary Street Tickets 558 9991 KI3 THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND SB&S fifth Fringe production. s brilliant parody ofperformances the whodunnit inreality a provincial theatre.

AsTom theStoppard' boundaries between the and blur, it soon appears that all the world is an oddly hilarious stage.

Aug 16-28 (not 22) 11.50 (13.20) £4.50 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 11 + SHREWSBURY SCHOOL 00©00 Venue 16 - RocketVenue ©Theatre Arts Centre, 10 Davie Street Tickets 667 6666 LI3 JOURNEY’S END Fringe First Winners 1995 return to Edinburgh with R.C. Sherriffs searing account of the suffering of war. ' H ighly sensitive... stunningly atmospheric... memorable' Shropshire Star. And don't forget - there's a ticket with it... £6.00 Aug your 16-21name 19.15on(21.10) (£4.00) Suitable for ages 11 + SKULDUGGERY THEATRE COMPANY OOQOO Venue 28 - Greyfriars Kirk House, Candlemaker Row Tickets 225 3626 Kl I ★storyDRACULA A spine-chilling new version of Bram Stoker' s classic horror by award-winning Canadian playwright L.A. haunting Green. Skulduggery' imaginative explores the power and s fascination ofandthesensual vampireproduction legend.(£5.00) British premiere.

Aug 9-15 21.15 (22.45) £6.00

17-30 AUGUST 3 MSrapfe | PLEASANCE 8.30pm Festtvoi 8 0131 556 6550 -% Edinburgh I

“John Keats meets John Coltrane” - L.A. Chronicle A Breathtaking Live Jazz Quartet.

A Daring Original Script.

9 American Kids Competing For The Gig Of A Lifetime.

Only 3 Will Ascend...

South Bridge Resource Center 6 Infirmary St. (just off South Bridge) 23-30 August 20.15 (22.15) Box Office Tel: 0131558 9991 107

Ripley Theatre presents Lesley Ross’ Little Red Riding Hood ... for children... whatever age you are...

16th - 28th 9.30am (10.45) Theatr Y Byd present a new play by Ian Rowlands New South Wales ‘it’s not a place, but a territory of the heart’ 8th - 14th 4.30pm (5.45) & 15th - 28th 3.30pm (4.45) Panphysichist Theatre

‘powerful Physical ■ 1 11 theatre...

■ ■ breathtaking’ 6th - 14th 6.20pm (7.30) Clear Insight present Illuminata 'Visionary first rate.../ 6th - 14th 8.15pm (9.30) Jean Genet’s The Maids 16th-21st 11.30am (1.00) Touched Theatre Rhino “Spectacularly Athletic” based on Ionesco’s ^ - 21 St “Rhinoceros” 1 -30pm (3.00) See VENUE 13 listings for full details

MICHAEL SMILEY ©o©©o Venue 3 - Assembly Rooms, 54 George Street Tickets 226 2428 Theatre ★reminiscences MICHAELofSMILEY:THE PARTING GLASS Raucous and unhinged life an emotional man left behind at an Irish Wake trying to make sense ofScotland life. 'A Onfascinating The Guardian 'Do whatever it takes to get a ticket' Sunday piece' 17.00 THE STAND COMEDY CLUB: STAND III ©o©©o Aug 6-8,10-12,15-19,24-26,30 (18.00) £7.50 (£6.50) Venue 5 -The Stand Comedy Club, 5 York Place Tickets 558 7272 HI2 ★firstEDDIE BANNON: BIG FAT DOG Acclaimed Irish comic premieres his play about a boy''Amiable s brushandwithconsistently life, death, enjoyable' superheroes,Dublin boobies a big fat called Blackie.

EveningandHerald 'dog Peeking good characterisations' Evening News.

Previews Aug 4,5 15.

0 0 (16.00) £3.00 Aug 6-29 (not 16) 15.00 (16.00) £5.00 (£4.00) STEEL BELLA VENUE 00©00 Venue 61 - Steel Bella Venue, George IV Bridge, entrance on Victoria Street Tickets 226 5138 K11 ★ MAENAD OF

by Erica ghostsCelticandlegend. dragons gathermacabre. roundTHEtheMABINOGI campfire for this updateWooff. on theOgres, ancient Spooky13,18-20 and Aug 23.45 (00.45) £6.00 (£5.00) Aug 16 21.45 (22.45) ★ PERFECT -Pert ALLandOUT ARTS INC bythisBarbara Goldman (New York).

EuropeanWOMEN premiere. perky(£6.00) no more...

Barbie'sB out of control!

Aug 10-14,18-21 20.00 (21.45) £7.00 Aug 14,20,21 15.00 (16.45) STORYTELLER SCOTLAND ®0©©0 Venue 30 - The Netherbow Theatre, 43 High Street Tickets 556 9579 J13 ★ ■ SUPPER WITH ROBERT BURNS The age-old hospitality ofpoetry, a fine meal, traditional fare seasoned with the sweetest of song, passion of tasty talesfeastin from the stormy story of Scotia'sand international bard.

Aand s storytellers Augdramatic 2-30 (not 8,15,22)Scotland' 18.30 (20.20) £12.50 singers. Suitable for ages 10+ STRAIGHT UP THEATRE COMPANY 00©00 Venue 49 - Bedlam Theatre, 11 b Bristo Place Tickets 225 9893 L11 ★ A LOAD OFBritish OLDRoyals, MONARCHS joyfully spillstothethebeans on day. our extraordinary from Alfred the Great present Stories, and scandals of the silly and sensible, sexy and sinister, sad, bad and9-21songs barking Aug (not 15)mad!14.30 (15.30) £5.50 (£4.50) Suitable for ages 12+ SUSU BLOW UP THEATRE GROUP OO©©© Venue 28 - Greyfriars Kirk House, Candlemaker Row Tickets 225 3626 Kl I ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR is Alan Ayckbourn at his finest.This superb comedy centres around the relationship between three couples on consecutive Christmas Eves.This play combines hilarious comedy with the darker undertones of middle suburban£4.00 England.

Aug 9-22 (not 16) 18.class 55 (20.55) (£3.00) Suitable for ages 10+ SWEET AND NAIVE OO©©© Venue 45 - Old St. Paul's Church & Hall,Jeffrey Street Tickets 556 0476 JI3 THE ABSENCE OF WAR A multi-award winning production at ' T he stuns Sunday Times NSDF' .

David Hare' s wide-ranging fast-moving political panorama with subversive insightsolution...' into our corridors of power. Be prepared for 'Director Rolanda8-29 Smith' Aug (nots brilliant Suns) 16.00 (18.00)Sunday £5.00Times. (£4.50) Suitable for ages 14+ Venue 41 - Hil Street Theatre, 19 Hil Street Tickets 226 6522 HI0 ★ TOURIST ENTERTAINMENT Holidays, sun,familiar sea andsituations.Take sex? Or adultery, death and insanity?

A funny and unsettling view of a kitsch trip totranslation. the darkside of tourism with three short plays by Noelle Renaude.

New 20-30 English Aug 11.10 (12.10) £5.00 (£4.50) TAG US THEATRE O0©OO Venue 40 - The Quaker Meeting House,Victoria Terrace Tickets 220 6109 J11 THE MARINER by Fernando Pessoa.The story of a shipwrecked sailor' s dream, revealed during a death vigil, pushes the barriers between reality and illusion: is this ague (not thing 15) we call12.3life'0 (13.30) merely £5.00 part of(£3.50) a dream? Haunting poetic theatre.

Aug'v9-21 TALL STORIES 0O©©O Venue 126 - C cubed, St John's Hall, West End, Princes Street Tickets 225 5105 19 ★internet THE TRUTH Could you live your life by telling nothing but the truth?

An truth cult sweeps the world but what is the truth behind its creator?

Find out Toby18)Mitchell' new play,£7.00 from(£5.00) award-winning company Tall Stories.

Aug 6-30in(not 20.45s (21.45)

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Sally Vaughan & Richard Jordan Ltd presents...

presents Laodamia

by Mihaly Babits, translated by Peter Zollman Hungarian modern theatre classic in English, retelling a story from Homer’s Iliad the love and lust of Laodamia for Protesilaos ... even beyond the grave.

Suicidal macho pride kills King Protesilaos in The Trojan War. His lusting widow, Laodamia, begs the gods for his ghost’s return.

Her gruesome wish is granted, but for three hours only...

Action, poetry, dance, music, mythology, love lost...

Fri 6 - Sun 29 Aug (Not Mon 16 or Mon 23) 8pm (9.30pm) £8 (£6) Venue 34, Tel: 0131 220 5606 www.wonder.co.uk/merlin/ AUTHENTIC HUNGARIAN GYPSY MUSIC

iccasional Welcome return of award-winning Gypsy music group, compared to The Gypsy Kings and Loyko, who’ve topped World Music charts with their fantastically frenetic folklore. New set for 99. ★★★★ihe Scotsman Mon 9 - Thu 12 Aug 12.30am (2.30am) £7.50/£5.50 Venue 34, Tel: 0131 220 5606 www.wonder.co.uk/andodrom/ AUTHENTIC HUNGARIAN FOLK DANCE-HOUSE KrtisaxuraK

Classically trained virtuoso folk, jazz and word music group with a special, uptempo, house-raising dance set for the Fringe.

"Kati Szvorak is in the Marta Sebestyen class" Folk Roots Mon 16 - Thu 19 Aug 12.30am (230am) £7.50/£5.50 Venue 34, Tel: 0131 220 5606 www.wonder.co.uk/szvorak/

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TANTRUM THEATRE COMPANY 00©©0 Venue 90 - Graffiti,Corner Broughton and East London Streets Tickets 557 8330 GI3 * ■ IMOGEN' S EYES Tantrum Theatre explores the fascination and fearActors of watching and being watched in Shakespeare' s passionate play, CYMBELINE. and dancers from Edinburgh CambridgeA combine and movement to create a production of stunningandphysicality. bewitchingtextmasterpiece.

THEATRE ALBA / MPR ©O©©© Aug 10-14 Aug 17-30 19.16.3300 (20.30) (17.30) £6.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 10+ Venue 113 - Sheraton Grand Hotel, I Festival Square, Lothian Road Tickets 226 5138 J8 ■ SHAKESPEARE AT THE SHERATON is a theatrical compilation TEASPOON PRODUCTIONS 0Q©©O depicting the passions of and Macbeth, Henryin IV,a vibrant Shylock,cabaret Juliet andstyle.many Linked music,Ophelia, it is realised Venue 188 - Gallon Centre, Lower Level, 121 Montgomery Street Tickets 226 5138 H17 more.

Fascinating andbyasonnets joy to behold.

THREE MEN IN A BOAT by Jerome K Jerome. ' D eft, daft and dazzling' Aug 5-14 21.00 (22.30) £9.00 (£6.00) The Independent.

Innovative cast embark upon a charmingly hilariousfunny' Venue 27 - Lauriston Halls, Lauriston Street Tickets 226 5138 K9 promenade rompette upComedy' thefemale river.London 'Utterly unexpected and devastatingly Scotsman.

Winner ' B est Fringe Award. ★ ■ THE THREE SISTERS - Chekhov' s genius gifts ofus thea playhuman of beautiful, Aug 5-30 19.30 (21.30) £6.50 (£5.00) artistic and genuine truth unlocking the secret corners heart.

Through David Purves' uniquevivacity. translation into Scots, Alba lends the masterpiece TEATR BIURO PODROZY OO©©© aAugcontemporary 17-29 (not richness 23) 19.3and 0 (22.15) £7.00 (£5.00) Suitable for ages 13+ Venue 20 - Theatre Workshop, 34 Hamilton Place Tickets 226 5425 F9 ★ ■ DRINK VINEGAR GENTLEMEN Their prizewinning anti-war tragedy Venue 121 - Duddingston Kirk Manse Garden, Old Church La., Duddingston Vil age Tix 226PI75138 Outer Carmen Funebre set the Fringe ablaze and toured four continents.

NowTBP reveal their versatility with this newashow, inspiredaward by persecuted Russian satirist ■ TAMLANE follows last year's triumph for the Scottish Theatre set against Daniil Kharms.

Already it' s received top Polish for comedy direction. the magnificent backdrop of Duddingston Loch Join a magical journey into Aug 1917,22 45 (20.35) Aug (18.35) realms- ofBringFaerya rug!! when True Thomas wrestles for his soul against the evils ‘ 15.“ 419.18.5“ (16.35) Aug 252018 16.17.13.444555 (17.35) (14.35) Aug ‘£7.5021- (£5.00) - 21.45 - - (22.35) the Aug ofAugElfland Aug 24,29 45 (19.35) Aug Aug 19-22,26-29 20.15 (22.00) £7.00 (£5.00) Aug 26 14.

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4 5 (13.35) Suitable for ages 12+ Aug 28 20.45 (21.35) THEATRE CRYPTIC 00©©0 Venue - UnivSqTheatre) ersity Old College Quad, South Bridge F9 Tickets192662- The 8740Quad (George KI2 Venue 20 - Theatre Workshop, 34 Hamilton Place Tickets 226 5425 ★ ■ ELECTRA Fringe First winners,Theatre Cryptic premiere a new ■Bosnian CARMEN FUNEBRE (FUNERAL SONG) Tragic testimonies from production of Sophocles Electra by Clare Venables.

Inflamed by her father' s victimsPrizeinspired thisAastonishing anti-warperformance show whichin won death, theandultimate Queen ofandRevenge seeks justice. A shocking journey through ScotsmanwarInternational' Hamada inwork1996. aid ofThe spoken Amnesty with unique Kosovoandoutdoor refugees. £8.00 (£5.00) Aug 2018video.21.30 15.30 (22.30) (16.30) Aug 17,2213.3sung 17.0 (14.30) 30text, (18.30)musicAug Aug 13 22.00 (23.00) s£30.00 (reception show) £ 17.50 (show only) Aug 19 24,29 16.0 (13.30) 30 (17.30) Aug 2125 14.19.3300 (15.30) (20.30) Aug Aug 26 12.

3 Aug TEATROALBA 01235 Aug 27 20.30 (21.30) Aug 28 18.30 (19.30) Suitable for ages 12+ Venue 19 - C, Over-Seas House, 100 Princes Street Tickets 225 5105 110 ★power CONTRADANCE Elizabeth the First as never seen before: sex, love, and ultimately freedom.

England' s ' F aerie Queen' reveals she is made of harder stuff than imagined.ofDiscover Spanishandplaywright Franciso Ors' shocking post-Franco sexual£6.00 politics Aug 4-30 (notmasterpiece 15) 12.15(13.30) (£5.00) darkest conspiracies.

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THEATRE 28 0Q©©0 Venue 49 - Bedlam Theatre, 11 b Bristo Place Tickets 225 9893 ★premiere ■ CORPUS CHRISTI Award-winning Theatre 28 present the European Terrence s controversial gay-Christ play.Valour!

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-Aug The 9-28 Ensemble & Best 1998 Time Out Critics Choice) (not Suns) 20.00 (21.55) £10.00 (£7.00) PARROT Venue 20 - Theatre Workshop, 34 Hamilton Place Tickets 226 5425 F9 ★ TObyHAVE AND TO HOLD Jimnight.They is a stand-up comic.

Michael works at the bank day and as a drag queen by come together with help from the classifieds...A love story for the 3rdPremiere. millennium.Written by Paul Harris. ; Directed Stephen God’s ^ Aug 17-30by(not Suns)Henry.

14.15European (15.45) £7.00 (£5.00) THEATRE WORKS OOOOO Venue 152 - Augustine's, George IV Bridge Tickets 225 6575 Kl I comic ★mesmerising DREAM STATE Inspired by the poetry anthology of the same name, thisour production asks fundamental questions regarding ourselves and nation9,11,13 at a pivotal Scottish Aug 12.00moment (12.50) in£6.00 (£5.00)history.Who are we, where are we going? ★recreate MESSENGERS Scotland is at war.is One man'thes obsessive ambition an tides independent sovereignty ripping nation apart.

Asbecomes theto whispering turn against him, facts get detached, information relative10,12,14 - can truth trusted?£6.00 (£5.00) Aug 11.55be(13.05) THEATRE WORKSHOP O0©©O Venue 20 - Theatre Workshop, 34 Hamilton Place Tickets 226 5425 F9 Aug 6-29 SCARY ANTICS -inTHE SHYSTERS ATrainspotting. young woman'Music, s freemasks, fall intotext 9.50pm self-discovery.

Alice Wonderland meets and mime tell a defiantly non-naturalistic Provocative & adult.Coventry. £5(£4) The actors story. from Belgrade Theatre, Aug Shysters 17-21 11.are30 learning (12.20) disabled £5.50 (£3.50) Suitable for ages 12+ ■ SCHRODINGER' S BOX A blank place where anything is conceivable.

The start ofJoinsomething very strange, veryexplore frightening, very funny andarmed very Venue 5 uncertain.

Reckless Sleepers as they their new physics "compulsive viewing” Stand III their (£3.50) box.

Scotsman only Aug with 24-29their23.1Sbodies (00.15)and£7.50 Suitable for ages 10+ 16 North SI “a breath of fresh air” forthese 99! Prior Palestinian the The British Council. ^ 558 7275 llllllvp-?- Guardian 'D.A.R.E. myBack dear, men inclusive onto stage don'ofttour give awithdamn' Herald.

'AAFrankly, galvanising and brilliantly act political theatre' The Scotsman.

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Previews 13,14 22.30 (midnight) £3.00 The Stand Comedy Club presents Aug 16,17 (23.00) Aug Aug 2018 15.19.3300 (17.00) (21.00) £7.00 Aug 26(£4.00) 21 16.13.3300 (18.00) (15.00) Aug 19 17.321.30 0 (19.00) Aug Aug 24,29 20.30 (22.00) Aug 25 18.

3 0 (20.00) Aug 27 14.30 (16.00) Aug 28 12.30 (14.00) ■breathtaking HUNGERtheatre - PRIMITIVE SCIENCE known afordouble-bill innovativeinspired and visually JANE productions.

Herewith theyarebeauty, present by Franzgnaw Kafka.The piece is shotyetthrough revealing the perversions that at Kafka' s solitary comic characters.

Aug 24,29 12.

2 5 (13.40) £7.00 (£4.00) Aug Aug MACKAY Aug 2527 20.25 16.25 (21.40) (17.40) Aug 2628 18.14.2255 (19.40) (15.40) Suitable for ages 10+ ★ BE CARNA, WOMEN OFofTHE FLESH A new Irish drama celebrating the humanity, dignity and resilience Dublin Prostitutes.Through an housewife monologues, five women a compelling glimpse of life behind interweave the paintedofface.

Aug 17-30 (not 23) 18.3offer 0 (19.30) £6.00 (£4.00) ★Dutch ■ THE PERGAMUM -Disturbing ADHOCquest Investigative & marxist actorsforPARADOX penetrate theOFbody secret of nature.history. fortheory ourTheatre! fascination the human throughout A conspiracy £ la Directed by Scott Johnston UmbertoandUco...

Brilliant theatrical documentary with controversial opinions...

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Aug 17-21 22.30 (23.45) £5.00 (£3.50) ★ ■ TAKING SIDES Bosnia, Kosova. 'Rich, compelling - Sun. demonstrates theatre ‘fiercest and funniest’ can ats Hetty intersection of personal/political' Vancouver JohntakingGraham Scotsman Daviesflourish (BBC' Wainthropp) plays eight real-life characters aid to 'hot property" enclave.

Part of Kosovar Cabaret. ' H umorous... chilling' Plays International.

Aug 24-29 22.15 (midnight) £6.50 (£4.00) Sunday Mail ★ MESSENGERS Scotland is at war.

One man' obsessive ambition to- THEATRE recreate an WORKS independent sovereignty is ripping the snation apart.

As the whispering tidesbeturn against him facts get detached, information becomes relative can truth trusted?

Aug 6-29 Aug 18,20,22,24,26,28,30 12.30 (13.40) £6.00 (£5.00) ★ WIR yearning MIDDERandDAcruelty SEAfrom Threea beach Shetlandhaunted womenbyreveal their where tales ofthe 9.05pm passion, memories, £5(£4) imagination sails free, miracles take shape before wondering eyes and the sea engulfs, embraces Aug 17-29 20.30 all.(21.30) £6.00 (£5.00) ★ the DREAM STATEthis- THEATRE WORKS Inspired by the poetryquestions anthology Venue 5 ofregarding sameourselves name, mesmerising asks fundamental Stand II 4p andgoing? our nation atproduction a pivotal moment in Scottish history.Who are we, where are we 1 North Clyde Street Lane Aug 17,19,21,23,25,27,29 12.30 (13.20) £6.00 (£5.00) ® 558 7272

★ ■ DASKA - MOVENS - EXIT: CROATION BILL Three ofof Croatia' s top theatre companies in repertory withDaska: aTRIPLE different combination shows presenting each day.

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Harms (World 'Croatia'17 s 13.10(14.50) Theatre de Complicite' Munchhausen.£8.00Exit(£4.00) Mr.Single. Premiere).

Aug Aug 2018, Movens: 21.10 (22.55) Aug 19 19.

1 0 (20.50) Aug 17.

1 0 (18.50) Aug 21 15.10(16.45) Aug 23-29 14.10 (15.50) THEATRUM BOTANICUM ASSOC WITH HOLDERS SEASON,INBARBADOS OQ©©0 Venue 193 - Royal Botanic Garden,West Gate, Arboretum Place Tickets 0374 167 352 D9 ★gets■ dredds.

THE CARIBBEAN TEMPEST Get ready for carnival as Shakespeare Letourthumping heavy Bajan voodoo Dub andmagic, sweetblood-curdling Calypso rhythms entice you toand bewitchingreggae, island.

Discover Baku spirits fire-breathing Rasta Acrobats.

Aug 8-30 19.30 (21.15) £10.00 (£8.00) ★ ■ JOURNEY TO MACBETH 99of terror, A pilgrimage from past revolutions in Europe arrivefalls, to confront the cycle bloodshed AsThe darkness ghosts emerge from the shadows of theandtext.civil war. torchlit journey through the play begins.

Aug 8-30 21.30 (23.15) £ 10.00 (£8.00) THREE TABLES FOR ONE 00©00 Venue 45 - Old St. Paul's Church & Hall, Jeffrey Street Tickets 556 0476 J13 ★haveMARRIAGE, SEX AND SECOND THOUGHTS Grow up; get married; kids; get a divorce.

See one boy' s attempt to revamp love and wedlock for the millenium.A compassionate14.satire

by Chris£5.00Harper.

Aug 10,12,14,17,19,21 30 (15.30) (£4.00)Not for the narrow minded. ★withSTRANGE BEDFELLOWS Shakespeare' s famous love sonnets. scenes presented a new zest and a selection of the bard'bys'tmost powerful A new compilation

by Michael David performed he areas most imaginative and inventive group' Stoke Sentinel.

Aug 9,1 1,13,16,18,20 14.30 (15.30) £5.00 (£4.00) TOMEE THEATRE 00©©0 Venue 8 i - The Garage Theatre, Grindlay Court Centre, Grindlay Street Tickets 2219009 K9 ★Antigone, ■ ANTIGONE TomeeTheatre after last year' s five star production of with a newLyricism, attemptnarration to unveilandthe documentary mystery surrounding Sophocle' sreturns famous heroine. are combined with dance and music.

Performed in English, Ancient and Modern Greek.

Aug 15-22 10.30 (12.30) £7.50 (£5.50) TRAVERSE THEATRE OQ©©0 Venue 15 - Traverse Theatre, Cambridge Street, off Lothian Road Tickets 228 1404 J9 TRAVERSE THEATRE Scotland' s world famous new writing theatre with 'Daily top international shows and the latest work of our brightest young dramatists’ Mail.allLegendary Traverse Bar night).

Cafe - food, drink and guaranteed celebrityspotting day (and well into the ★(World ■ THEPremiere) JUJU GIRL:TRAVERSE THEATREjourneys COMPANY (Scotland) byAileen Ritchie. Scotswoman to Zimbabwe, inPreviews her grandmother' s00footsteps.

Aug 6-8 19.

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4 5 (16.

15) £7.50 (£4.50) Aug 15,20 17.311.0 (20.00) Aug 1917,2113.45(16.15) 20.15 (22.45)Aug£ 12.00 (£7.50) Aug 18,22,27 0 0 (13.30) Aug 24,28 14.

45 (17.15) Aug (21.00) Aug (23.45) Aug 31,Sept Sept25,29 1,4 12.18.3030(15.00) Sept262 21.15 16.15 (18.45) Suitable3 20.00 for ages(22.30) 12+ BEGIN AGAIN: KTC (Scotland) A compelling and stylish post-war thriller with text by acclaimed playwright David Harrower.

Director Guy Hollands.

Aug 24,28,Sept 12.00 (15.35) (13.05) £9.00 (£6.00) Aug 25,29,Sept 32 14.30 Aug 26,31 ,Sept 4 17.

0 0 (18.05) Aug 27,Sept I 19.30 (20.35) ■(Scottish THE GOGMAGOGS GOBBLEDYGOOK: GOGMAGOGS (England) Premiere)BeOverwhelming of verbal velocity, physical vivacity, musical virtuosity. goggle-eyed andmixgob-smacked.

Previews Aug 13 20.00 (21.30) Aug 14 11.

0 0 (12.30) £7.50 (£4.50) Aug 14.45 (22.45) (16.15) Aug 30 (19.00) £Suitable 12.00 (£7.50) Aug 15,20 18,22 21.15 Aug 17,21 19 11.017.0 (12.30) for ages 12+ ★(England) HAPPY(World BIRTHDAY MISTER DEKAwith D:TOLD

BY AN IDIOT Premiere) Collaboration writer Biyi Bandele creating aAug haunting story. £6.00 (£4.00) Preview 10 12.love00 I(13.30) Aug I12,17,21,24,28,Sept 1,15,20,27,Sept 14.2 317.0 (16.00) Aug 00 (21.00) (18.30)£9.00 (£6.00) Aug 13,18,22,25,29,Sept 3 19.30 Aug 14,19,26,31 ,Sept 4 12.00 (13.30) ★ KRISHNAN' S DAIRY (New Zealand)Mahal (European Premiere) GUY MASTERSON PRODUCTIONS.Taj and cornershop.

An enchanting love story.

Beautiful, funny, touching.

Aug 10,14,19,24,28,Sept 2 14.

3 0 (15.40) £9.00 (£6.00) Aug 11,15,20,25,29,Sept 34 17.00 Aug 19.(13.10) 30 (18.10) (20.40) Aug 12,17,21,26,31 13,18,22,27,Sept,SeptI 12.00 Suitable for ages 12+

Theatre ★ cold, ■ MISTERMAN:CORCADORCA Premiere) Mummy's full ofFrom the cat' s depressed.Vick and Jammie(Ireland) Dodgers(UKshould sort things.

Disco Pigs creators.

Preview Aug 1012.019.0 3(13.10) 0 (20.40)£9.00£6.00(£6.00) (£4.00) Aug I12,17,21 1,15,20 Aug 14.17.3000 (15.40) Aug 13,18,22 (18.10) Aug 14,19 19.30 (20.40) ■ MOJO MICKYBO: KABOSH (Ireland) (ScottishWinner Premiere) paced tragi-comic hander about childhood friendship.

DublinFastFringe Festival24-Sept 1998.two4 (not Aug 30) 22.00 (22.55) £9.00 (£6.00) ★McLean' ■ RIDDANCE: (England) Premiere) s caustic take17.PAINES on00 (18.30) litter,PLOUGH seenAugthrough the eyes(World of £6.00 forlorn HooverLinda salesman.

Previews Aug 10 I I 19.

3 0 (21.00) (£4.00) Aug 12,17,21,25,29,Sept 3 12.

0 0 (13.30) £9.00 (£6.00) Aug 13,18,22,26,31 ,Sept 4 14.30 (16.00) Aug Aug 14,19,27,Sept 15,20,24,28,SeptI 17.2 019.0 (18.30) 30 (21.00) ★(World ■ SOME EXPLICIT POLAROIDS: OUT OF JOINT (England) Premiere) Mark Ravenhill' s acerbic new satire on£7.50 the (£4.50) cult of celebrity.

Previews Aug 12 20.00 (21.30) Aug 14 17.

3 0 (19.00) Aug 15,20 21.15 (22.45) Aug 17,21,26 II .00 (12.30) £ 12.

0 0 (£7.50) Aug 18,22,2718.314.0 (20.00) 45 (16.15) Aug Aug 25,29 19 17.22.15 30 (19.00) Aug 24,28 (23.45) ■(Scottish STONES IN HISHollywood POCKETS: LYRIC THEATRE Premiere) film-makers invade quiet BELFAST Irish village (Ireland) in Marie Jones' comedy.

Preview Aug 10 22.00 (midnight) £6.00 (£4.00) Aug 11-22 (not 16) 22.00 (midnight) £9.00 (£6.00) ■COMMUNICADO) WEREWOLVES:THEATRE ARCHIPELAGO (Scotland)people (Scottish Premiere) In(FORMERLY awith landscape scarred wars and unhealing resentments busyeven themselves timeless rituals.by Then THEY appear, as always, everywhere, here.

Compelling, un-nervingly funny.

Helena Kaut Howsons' first production for the company.

Preview Aug20.15 11 (22.45) 19.00 (21.30) Aug £7.5015,20,25,29 (£4.50) 11.00 (13.30) £12.00 (£7.50) Aug 14,19 Aug 17,21,26 13.

4 5 (16.15) Aug 18,22,27 Aug 21.15 (23.45) Sept Aug 31,Sept 3 17.12.3300(20.00) (15.00) Sept 24,28 1,4 16.15(18.45) 2 20.00 (22.30) ★'Genuinely ■ THE wonderful WHISPERERS: ROUGH MAGIC (Ireland) pieceElizabeth of comicKuti.theatre' Sunday Times.(UK Premiere) ByAugFrances Sheridan and 24,28 00 (13.30) Aug Aug 25,29 14.(23.45) 45 (17.15) £9.00 (£6.00) Aug 26 17.311.03(20.00) Aug 16.15(18.45) Sept 271,4 21.15 20.00 (22.30) Sept 31,Sept 2 12.30 (15.00) TUNNELVISION THEATRE COMPANY 00©©0 Venue 28 - Greyfriars Kirk House, Candlemaker Row Tickets 225 3626 Kl I ■ THE ZOO STORY by Edward Albee. Sunday afternoon. Central Park.

New York.

A black comedy of men and dogs, of fat landladies and coloured queens. Startling, irreverent and highly-charged. It's on just before tea-time. www.angelfire.com/la/thezoostory Aug 9-22 (not 16) 17.25 (18.25) £5.00 (£4.00) UGlyTHEATRE COMPANY ©OOOO Venue 19 - C, Over-Seas House, 100 Princes Street Tickets 225 5105 110 ★sex,SKINT Generation X slouches through the Waste Land.Through a hazemainof drugs and daytime TV, Catrin rewrites the script of her past, but her characters won't rplayRhydd. along. 'Complex... taboo... the grace and posture of true professionals' Aug 4-14 15.Go/' 50 (17.00) £5.00 (£4.00) ★ LEOPARD 223WarTheterror. rise and fall of and the Berlin Wall.True storiesofWWIII. from the midst ofwithColdpace the Wales brink 'Develops drama...Laughter a pleasure suspense to watch atSouth Echo.

Aug 4-14 14.30 (15.40)and £5.00 (£4,00) Venue 4 - C too, St Columba's by the Castle,Johnston Terrace Tickets 225 5105 KIO ★ AFrederick NIGHTWhitey.This AT THE GRAND GUIGNOL Adapted fromParisMaurice Levelthe and tribute to the Grand Guignol of celebrates legendary Theatre Horror'. Be immersed and embroiled in tales of desire and revenge ofand Augterror, 5-14 midnight (01.20)lust.£5.00 (£4.00)

C venues The funkiest Festival on the Fringe.

After Dinner dirty bird productions Archie's Arcade network of stuff theatre The Smiling Assassins cackophonics productions Awakening Justice the elements Baa Baa Boys in human form Behind Closed Doors camera Pirandello's Bellavita kcs theatre in 'three plays in search of a title' Roald Dahl's The BFC oxford university touring co Peter Morris' Boy Band oxford university touring co Mister Butterfly first act opera international Francisco Ors' Contradance teatro alba Culpability oxford university touring co Saemus Heaney's The Cure at Troy oxford universitytouring co Hello Dali Atomic whispering eyes theatre company Dance India Live! the elements Diminished Responsibility roscian productions Europe dirty bird productions A Might at the Grand Guignol ugly theatre company Hello There! x-rated revue Heroes lampman productions Hold Ups HARD AND FAST THEATRE Pirandello's The Imbecile kcstheatre m three plays in search OFATmf' Ion HARD AND FAST THEATRE Kabaret Brecht year out drama company Kiss My Honeymoon Lips motormouse productions Leopard 223 ugly theatre company Looking for Love fuori scena theatre company Love's Labour's Lost c theatre Luke Back In Anger jac knife productions The Lunatic channel twelve theatre Made of Clay the elements A Man Outside oxford university touring co Peter Morris' Marge oxford university touring co Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Match Girl ctheatre My Night With Reg wisepart productions Nerve exacting theatre company New Age Romance rexana productions Newsrevue '99 newsrevue David Mamet's Oleanna hodar productions Out Damn Spot! lampman productions Proper Shopper in human form Charlotte Bronte: Reader, I Married Him Angela barlow El Rebusque whispering eyes theatre company The Retro-kids birthwrite theatre company The Rime of the Ancient Mariner pounds, dollars & cents Shakespeare for Breakfast c theatre Sakatumbe - African Music and Dance the elements Salome & A Full Moon In March giralda theatre company The Sheryls Save the World the ken oath theatre company Six Degrees of Separation moonbun Mathilda productions Skint ugly theatre company Snow White tall stories Absolute Solo rosie kay Somehow I Feel Dirty fresh blood theatre company Caryl Churchill's The Skriker exacting theatre company Swahili Godot 1157 performance group Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd rhmt Shakespeare's Women: Love's Labour's Regained beyond Thumping platform one theatre company Till Death Us Do Part roscian productions Toast BRIAN THE LION Truth TALL STORIES Ubersausage! fresh blood theatre company John Patrick Shanley's Wekome to the Moon bring nr on What were you doing when you were 13? ashley storrie Brian Friel's Winners codpiece drama society The Wiz north London performing arts centre Hloel Coward's Words and Music rexana productions Working and Bonking oxford university touring co Worming Around in the Mud the oily cavern theatre company Albee's The Zoo Story kcstheatre in three plays in search ofatitle' Wicked. Make sure you see it all. venue4 iue126 225 5105 C 225 5105 €225 5105 114

‘Imagine Terry Waite and Brian Keenan crossed with Morecambe and Wise and you still can't have any idea of how magically funny this brilliant show is’ The Daily Telegraph

The Observer Box Office: 0131226 2428 — | 15 - 30 August at 6.30pm (except 19 & 26) ‘Ithey sawstaggered an audience disabled and with begging laughterforthatmercy’ outsoexhausted PRIOR TO NEW YORK

ULYSSES COMPANY PRESENT 'PUSHKINTHEATRE @ FRINGE.99" oo©©o Venue 28 - Greyfriars Kirk House, Candlemaker Row Tickets 225 3626 Kl I ★WhoMOZART & SALIERI Why did Mozart perish?

Did Salieri poison him? wasandtheRussian man in-black who commissioned Scottish desperately and Amadeus' selflesslytheplayRequiem?...Two Pushkin's 'Littleactors Tragedy'asAug an 18,20,24,26,28 unexpected version Superstar 12.25of(13.10) £4.00 (£3.00) mysterious death.

Suitable for ages 12+ ★ ■ PUSHKIN ON THE As troupe of wandering actor clowns perform a farce.MOON The great...Night, RussianMoon. poet' spirittransform doesn' t come alone...

Masks, images, people, puppets, fairytales, mysticism into a joyous carnival of love and dance of death.

Aug 17,19,21,25,27,30 12.25 (13.10) £4.00 (£3.00) Suitable for ages 12+ unchained fusion ®0©©0 Venue 41 - Hil Street Theatre, 19 Hil Street Tickets 226 6522 HI0 ★imminent MISSING THE MILLENNIUM Are we right to assume the Millennium - ifinso,mid-l999.Their should we be conflicting celebrating?views 3 characters separated by 2000but is years meet of truth seem humorous have startling consequences for£3.00 everyone.

Preview Aug 8-30Aug (not7 19)16.5516.(17.50) 55 (17.50) £5.00 (£4.00) UNION THEATRE 000©0 Venue 93 - James Gil espie's High School, Lauderdale Street Tickets 01501 741584 N8 ■bawdy COMEDY OFin the ERRORS HisExperienced happiest play, tangled twins,fromromantic romps, badinage brothel.

Fringe players the Bard' s backyard bring total text, enough plus song,fordance and spectacle. 'If it's good enough for s good AugShakespeare 24-28 19.15it'(21.45) £5.00 (£4.00)us'.

Theatre UNIVERSITY COLLEGE UNION DRAMA SOCIETYLONDON O Venue 16 - Rocket Venue ©Theatre Arts Centre, 10 Davie Street Tickets 667 6666 ■Williams' A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE A stark, gutsy production ofTennesse play, making extensive use of music and imagery to convey the complexity the haunting Aug 16-21 and14.19.33intensity 00 (20.45) (15.45) of£4.50 (£3.00) relationships he explores.

Aug 23-28 Suitable for ages 13+ Amusic, SPLASH OFintoGREY An intense, fluidofcombination of dialogue, breaking delightful moments humour.

Nadia Morgan' s mime originaland piece focuses on memories and monotony in three distinct relationships, magnifying the significance£5.00 of the(£2.50) 'little things'.

Aug 9-14 Aug 16-21 14.30(15.15) 19.14.3300 (20.15) Aug 23-28 (15.15) Suitable for ages 13+ VAGUE IDEAS THEATRE OOO©© Venue 81 - The Garage Theatre, Grindlay Court Centre, Grindlay Street Tickets 221 9009 K9 ★ FATeating GIRLdisorders has her own twistedmanipulation. philosophy.It'Her darklyfailure, comicanddiatribe is not about media s about the lengths we are8-14prepared to go orto£6.00 avoid it. Snappy comedy - fascinating.

Aug 21.15 (22.10) (£5.00) Aug 22-30 17.30 (18.25)

UNITED PLAYERS GUILD 00©©0 Venue 152 - Augustine's, George IV Bridge Tickets 225 6575 Kl I ★AND ■ WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE' S OTHELLO A PLAY IN BLACK WHITE Italian director upsets hierarchies in multi-cultural theatre company bys lives castingmirror ruraltheIndian as Othello and seasoned Britishnightactor as lago.

The actor' characters in Othello as opening approaches...

Aug 17-21 12.

4 5 (14.25) £5.00 (£3.00) Aug 24-30 (not 29) 10.45 (12.25) Suitable for ages 10+

FOUR top COMEDIANS ‘2 FOR 1’ BEER PROMOTION JOKE COMPETITION TWO HOUR SHOW TWO INTERVALS EARLY SHOW & LATE SHOW FREE T-SHIRTS AIR CONDITIONED VENUE allforoiily£6.50 »|_U Murder

CAFE ROYAL 17 West Register Street Venue 47 Fri 6th - Sun 29th Aug (not 17th or 24th) Free preview Thurs 5th Aug early show: 8pm-10pm late show: 10.30pm-12.30am SELL OUT ‘95, 96, 97, 98!

Box Office: 0131-556 2549 “Screaming Blue Murder is undoubtedly cabaret comedy entertainment at its very best” The Scotsman “top comedy, top value” The List

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Michelle Harris and Eljai Morais theirattitude, talents toserved bring youa bed canny,of sharp observations matched with sexiness and cutting edge theatre.

Goldberg meets5 Victoria Wood'onFreeWandsworth Art Festival '98). Whoopi Preview Aug 17.30 (18.45) Aug 6-30 17.30 (18.45) £5.00 (£4.00) VOLCANO THEATRE COMPANY OOO©© Venue 37 - George Square Theatre, George Square Tickets 662 8740 M11 ■ MACBETH - Guord/' DIRECTOR' S CUT '...physical, imagistic...textually alert' Michael Billington, o n.Volcano present ' M acbeth' like you' v e never seen itintobefore.Two killer-lovers.The and contemporary as we descend the of the £8.00 play -classic the violence, the madness,collide the passion.

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©o©©o VALVONA & CROLLA Venue 67 -Valvona & Crolla, 19 Elm Row, top of Leith Walk Tickets 556 7800 ★ ■ CAPTAIN CORELLI' S MANDOLIN Adapted exclusively forpermission the 1999 Festival

by Mike MaranAlison and Philip Contini, by kindand ofEdinburgh the (Piano). author, LouisFringe de booking Bernieres, with Stephens (Mandolin) Anne Evans Advance advised.

Aug 7,9-12,17-19,24-26 (14.20) £8.00 (£5.00) Aug 713,14,20,21,27,28 18.00 (19.20) 13.13.0000(14.20) Aug £10.00 Aug 14,20,27,28 Aug 17-19, 24-26 15.15.0000(16.20) (16.20) £8.00 (£5.00) ★ double ■ GARDEN NOTES

by Frederic byas John Carnegie.

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Gill Directed Bowman Mary Garden, the soprano more toasted Melba.

A woman in control!

The greatest singing actress of the century confesses...

Aug 6,11,12,16,28 18.00 (19.10) £7.00 (£5.00) Aug Aug 9,10,19,20,21,23-25 23 15.00 (16.10) 20.00 (21.10) Suitable for ages 12+ WHO' S Confused.

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Bring an idea orthe VENUE 13 ®0@©0 play or place to perform and use it to bid in the daily auction. Commission Venue 13 - Harry Younger Hall.lochend Close, Canongate Tickets 07050 161320 JI5 company a day. Lastwe'lyear: 'innovative, N.B. In21-30 wetforweather l move indoors. spectacular and captivating' The List. ★discovery NEW SOUTH WALES by Ian Rowlands.

Returning from a voyage of Aug 10.00 (10.30) Free of Oz.Alex encounters a taxi driver with similar'Cdreams.

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WARWICK UNIVERSITY DRAMA SOCIETY OOO©© Aug 8-14 0 (17.45) £7.00 (£5.00) Venue 16 - Rocket Venue ©Theatre Arts Centre, 10 Davie Street Tickets 667 6666 LI 3 Aug 15-28 15.30 (16.45) ■improvisation ABIGAIL'S'Abigail' PARTY One of Mike Leigh' s earliest plays.

Devised through ■searching ILLUMINATA by Clear Insight.

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Aug 23-28 18.

0 0 (19.10) £5.00 (£3.50) Suitable for ages 12+ Aug 6-14 20.15 (21.30) £7.00 (£5.00)

WHISPERING EYES ®0©©0 Venue 126 - C cubed, St John's Hall, West End, Princes Street Tickets 225 5105 19 ★perpetual ■ HELLO DALI ATOMIC Salvador Dali brought brilliantly to life in a of pureandandscatological. pulsating Sensational pleasure. Exotic EcstaticFringe andmotion erratic.machine Scandalous new and showerotic. from 3-time winner starring Avi Nassa.

Aug 6-30 (notFirst Weds) 19.30Andrew (20.30)Dallmeyer, £7.00 (£5.00) WIDE OOOOO Venue 45 - Old St. Paul's Church & Hall, Jeffrey Street Tickets 556 0476 J13 ★ SIXtheMOURNERS AND AWIDE. MONKEY Another remarkable premiere from acclaimed collective A physically flamboyant black comic tail.

Atdeliciously the wake of a clown six mourners tussle to be heir of a monkey in this adventure.

Aug 9-14 gormless 00.15 (01.15) £4.00 (£2.50) WISEPART PRODUCTIONS ®0©©0 Venue 19 - C, Over-Seas House, 100 Princes Street Tickets 225 5105 110 MY NIGHT WITH REG by Kevin Elyot.

Six gay friends take you to their party in this seriously funny award-winning comedy.

Crazy coital plot-links and brilliantTimes. one-liners served straight-up, no ice. 'Laughter with a killer punchline' Warning: Aug 4-30 (not Tues) 22.30contains (midnight)nudity.£6.00 (£5.00) WYCLIFFE OOO©© Venue 21 - Roman Eagle Lodge, 2 Johnston Terrace Tickets 226 7207 KI0 TWO ...actors and fourteen characters in a busy northern bar invite you to. experience Salvation.

From the award-winning writer of ' R oad & Little Voice' 'Georgina This richlyBrown, textured piece is an assured and highly entertaining show' Aug 23-29 11.4Independent.

5 (12.45) £5.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 11 + ONLY ONCE ...again, following last years successful runofthese outcasts- desperate to make sense of their backgrounds, uncertain the confront differences andCheltenham their needFestival for loveof Literature. to survive. 'Chambers'futuretypical deftness and affection' Aug 23-29 13.15 (14.15) £5.00 (£4.00) Suitable for ages 11 +

ROGER LLEWELLYN as Sherlock Holmes The Man ... not the thinking machine Directed by Gareth Armstrong andsensepreciof humour” se, but withtall,SUNDAY aelegant cuttingEXPRESS Roman Eagle Lodge Venue 21 at 2.35 August(occpt6thABgSl- August MSthjSrd) 29th

Theatre YEAR OUT DRAMA COMPANY 00©00 Venue 4 - C too, St Columba's by the Castle, Johnston Terrace Tickets 225 5105 K10 KABARET BRECHT Berlin, 1930.

Exotic talents flourish in a world of songs, satire and sleaze.

Brecht and his contemporaries Kurt Weill and Hans Eisler comment on theof naked capitalism, prostitution and violence which spawned the Nazi(01.20) philosophy.

Augnew15-21ordermidnight £5.00 (£4.00) THE YOUNG VIC OO©©© Venue 3 - Assembly Rooms, 54 George Street Tickets 226 2428 111 THE YOUNG VIC ARABIAN NIGHTS A first at the Fringe Dominic Cooke' s acclaimed adaptation of this classic tale is a rare treat for adults and children alike. 'Truly magical production' Sunday the imagination' Independent.

'Breathtaking' DailyTimes.

Mail. 'Guaranteed to spark Aug 17-19,24-26,30 14.

0 0 (16.00) £10.00 (£8.00) Aug 20-22,27-29 14.00 (16.00) £13.00 (£10.00) Suitable for ages 7+ YTOURINGTHEATRE COMPANY OO©©© Venue 20 - Theatre Workshop, 34 Hamilton Place Tickets 226 5425 F9 ★love,■ belief SWEET AS YOU ARE ' I want to change what you think' , a play about and genetically modified food about choices we make and the reasons we make them. A welcome return for Bradford Fringe First writer, Jonathan Aug 17-30Hall.(not 22,29) 10.00 (12.00) £5.50 (£3.50) Suitable for ages 14+ ZTHEATRE COMPANY ©QQOO Venue 21 - Roman Eagle Lodge, 2 Johnston Terrace Tickets 226 7207 KI0 THE SUICIDE Can a sausage lead to suicide?

The Suicide a pacey, colourful comedy.

A man plagued by thoughts of suicide finds himself in a bizarre world of vicars, and Eggnog. laugh (£4.00) in the face of death?

Aug 6-21tubas (not Tues) 16.30 Can (17.40)you £4.50 ★FindPLAYING MURDER Suffer from boredom, insomnia, flatulence? out who'sWITH 'play Playingextends with Murder' This innovative Zdeath? to its and 18thallyearyourat problems the Fringe.will cease.

Can you laugh in the face of Aug 6-21 (notTues) 15.20 (16.20) £4.00 (£3.50)

THE CLUB OUT BONGO OF THE BLUE ®0©©0 Venue 143 - The Bongo Club, out of the blue, 14 New St (off Royal Mile) J14 ■projections STATIC and An installation combining multi-screen video spatial blur design;theartist Alex Williamson and director film RussandMurphy line dealing between experimental, abstract narrative cinema, with the thin that divides the(03.00) conscious and the subconscious. line Aug 4 20.00 Free Aug 5-30 12.00 (05.00) 1 I*SCOTTISH THE FAMOUS GROUSE HOUSE I PRESENTS INTERNATIONAL ®0©©0 Venue 34 - The Famous Grouse House, 5 Chambers Street KI2 ■subject MICHAEL CRAIK - FACADE Paintings exploring the of architecture. features create images that canandbeSuperimposed viewed as a structural representation offorms. the architectural source an appreciation of its abstract (&AugOther artists).

6-29 09.30 (03.30) Free Poster so good you want to wear it?

T-shirts & Fringe memorabilia can be found in the Fringe shop -180 High Street, Royal Mile ■ 117

MASSIMO CRUCIAN! Venue 39 - Crowne Plaza Hotel, 80 High Street

THE ADAM POTTERY Venue 135 - The Adam Pottery, 76 Henderson Row

Original Painting on Glass From Assisi - Italy The 1th Show in U.K. of Massimo Crucian!

ARCHITECTURE ON THE FRINGE Venue 132 - Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland, Bakehouse Close, 146 Canongate ROYAL FINE ARTfor SCOTLAND COMMISSION Bakehouse Close, I Edinburgh^EHS 8DD Flesh + Stone (Parts 2 & 3) Building a Scottish Identity Aarchidynamic exhibition of contemporary I; AfChitGCtlirG tectvoxurepops with models, photographs, drawings,Scottish and - video showing ci v i c , educational, cul t u ral and leisure buildings against an historical background | OTi FRINGE

DANISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE Venue 163 - Danish Cultural Institute, 3 Doune Terrace 16 August - 25 September 1999

Free as a Bird Paintings by Inge LiseWestman Admission free Open Monday to Friday 10am - 5pm

BECKERMAN BALKEN: BRONZE SCULPTURES Venue 68 - Point Hotel, 34 Bread Street

DAZZLE CONTEMPORARY JEWELLERY EXHIBITION K9 Venue 15 - Traverse Theatre, Cambridge Street, off Lothian Road J9

BECKERMAN BALKEN BRONZE SCULPTURES

JEWELLERY! JEWELLERY! JEWELLERY!

34 Bread Street Edinburgh OPEN 9am-9pm THROUGHOUT THE FESTIVAL Tel: 01312215555 COLLECTIVE Venue 80 - Collective GallGALLERY ery, 22-28 Cockburn Street

JEWELLERY! TRAVERSE THEATRE DA^LE EXHIBITION AlADMISSION l 2,000 exhibits are forOpen sale 711daysAugust - midnight ahttp://www.dazzle-exhibitions.com week- 4In September the spectacular10am ATRIUM space by the restaurantFREE & Blue Bar Cafe THE DEAN GALLERY J12 Venue 69 - The Dean Gallery, 73 Belford Road

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7 August - ii September admission free tel/fax 0131220 1260 Tues - Sat n-6pm Thur til 8pm Sun 2-i,pm •6PINBVRGH-

New Paintings by Gary Hume 1 1 AUGUST - 1 7 OCTOBER Gary Hume is the prominent young British artist chosen to represent the United Kingdom at the 1999 Venice Biennale. His paintingsare simplified to the verge of abstraction and are characterised by their bold colours and designs.

Admission £2.50, concessions £1.50

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EDINBURGH COLLEGE OPART Venue 73 - Edinburgh College of Art, Uuriston Place

FRANTIC REDHEAD PRODUCTIONS Venue 55 - Randolph Studio, Inst. Francais d'Ecosse, 13 Randolph Cres.

THE EDINBURGH PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY Venue 130 - The Photographic Exhibition Centre, 68 Great King Street

FRANTIC REDHEAD PRODUCTIONS Venue 55 - Randolph Studio, Inst. Francais d'Ecosse, 13 Randolph Cres.

International Photography 137th annual exhibition of more than 200 prints created by photographers world wide Presented by The Edinburgh Photographic Society August 8th to September 5th Open Mon-Sat 10am - 8pm Sun 1pm - 5pm Admission (including catalogue) £2.00 Concessions £1.50 Under 12 free (Scottish Charity SCO 17042) Federation Internationale de I'Art Photographique

GAYLE GARNER ROSKI LOS ANGELES WATERCOLORIST FREE EXHIBIT OPEN DAILY I I AM - I I PM THE RANDOLPH STUDIO (VENUE 55) 13 RANDOLPH CRESCENT

FRINGE POSTER COMPETITION EDINBURGH PRINTMAKERS Venue 73 - Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place Venue 144 - Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop & Gallery, 23 Union St. HISASHI MOMOSE Fringe Poster Competition Exhibition WORKS ON PAPER 7 August - 11 September 1999 This exhibition presents 250 illustrations, specially Edinburgh Printmakers is proud to present the work of this chosen as examples of the outstanding contemporary Japanese artist and printmaker most colourful, inventive, showing his exquisite and subtle paperworks exciting entries submitted Festival Open Studio: for the 1999 Fringe Poster. tours around the printmaking studio between 2pm- 4pm Tuesday-Friday.

AlGALLERY so on showOPENING prints by contHOURS: emporaryTuesday artists worki- Saturday ng in Scotland.10am All work- 6pmis forADMISSION sale at reasonablFREE e prices Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, 7th - 28th August 1999.10am - 5pm.

23 Union Street (opposite the Playhouse Theatre) EDINBURGH 0131 557 2479 EDITH SIMON GALLERY Venue 103 - Edith Simon Gallery 11 Grosvenor Crescent Art@ EdithSimon.Home pictures sculpture graphics audio-visual SEE THE STUDIO WHERE IT ALL HAPPENS! 8-29 AUG Mon-Sat 10.30-6.00 Admission free web site: edith-simon.com

GALERIE MIRAGES Venue 149 - Galerie Mirages, 46a Raeburn Place Our 13th Festival Exhibition Jewellery of the World An established Festival exhibition...

Designer jewellery from Zimbabwe, amber from Denmark, Ayala Bar’s new Autumn Collection, original jewellery from India, Africa and Thailand Treasures of the Silk Route Merchants’ chests full oftreasures and stunning silk from Central Asia and beyond.

Vlon-Sat: 10-6 • Sun : 1-5 5 August -18 September

HOLYROOD ART CLUB Venue 157 - The Candlish Hall, First Floor, St George's West, Shandwick Place HOLYROOD ART CLUB

MIDLOTHIAN COMMUNITY ARTISTS Venue 161 - Dalkeith Arts Centre, White Hart Street, Dalkeith

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Art Exhibition and Sale of Paintings At The Candlish Hall First Floor • St George’s West • Shandwick Place Open Saturday August 7th-28th 1999 Mon-Sat I0am-6.30pm (closes 5.30pm Sat 28th) Admission Free • Cafeteria INHOUSE Venue 174 - Inhouse, 28 Howe Street rj p; D pj wY El p- a18nostalgic look back at D yrY k! years Festival exhibitions innewthismillennium. their oflastInhouse Design Exhibition before the Asdoeswethisbid century’s farewell todesign the 20lhtell century, what our past andby how the future willMackintosh, look.us aboutFrank Work Charles Rennie Lloyd Wright, Philippe Starck, Ettore Sottsass and many other design stars of the 20th century.

EXHIBITS products, prototypes, drawings & photographs Aug 11 th-4th Mon-Sat 930-6.0Sept Cpm Sun22nd&29(hAug MOO-5.CCpm LACKADAISICAL CONTEMPORARY ART Venue 181 - Edinburgh Ski Club, I Howe Street Contemporary 14th-31st Aug 1999 Painting, installation, photogra-to phy, graphics and senses. sculpture refresh your Admission free- 7pm 10am Thurs &Everyday Sat0131late 2203121 night music events MARIE CURIE CANCER CARE Venue 194 - Marie Curie Cancer Care, 29 Albany Street "I A

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From lues 10 August - Sat 4 Sept 10-5pm Mondoy-Friday Saturday Morning Admission Free Marie Curie Cancer Care ST, EDINFAX:BURGH, 3QN TEL29 ALBANY 0131 4787050 0131 EH14787051

Exhibition of Water Colours for the Flowering of Scotland Book of Hope

NATIONAL GALLERY OF SCOTLAND Venue 63 - National Gallery of Scotland,The Mound Mastery and Elegance French Drawings from the Collection ofJeffrey E Horvitz 9 JULY - 5 SEPTEMBER too French drawings from one of the greatest priuate collections in the world including works by Poussin, Watteau, Boucher, Greuze, Fragonard and Dauid.

Exhibition organised by Harvard University Art Museums Admission Free NATIONAL GALLERY OF SCOTLAND Venue 63 - National Gallery of Scotland,The Mound The Tiger and the Thistle Tipu Sultan and the Scots in India €.1760-1800 29 JULY- 3 OCTOBER Celebrating the great freedom fighter of India, Tipu Sultan, this exhibition marks the 200th anniuersary of the Storming ofSeringapatam and the links between Scotland and India during the Mysore Wars.

Sponsored by Murray Beith Murray ws jjaflyi Admission £3.00, concessions £1.50 murhay be.th Murray ws NATIONAL GALLERY OF SCOTLAND AT THE GMA Venue 66 - The Gymnasium, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 72 Belford Road H5 Designs of Desire Architectural and Ornament Prints and Drawings 1500-1850 25 AUGUST- 7 NOVEMBER Ouer 120 prints and drawings and applied arts objects taking us through 350 years of witty, whimsical and fantastic design from such notable names as Diirer, Pietro da Cortona, Watteau, William and Robert Adam, William Chambers, Piranesi and Chippendale.

Admission Free

OUTLOOK TOWER AND CAMERA OBSCURA Venue 160 • Outlook Tower & Camera Obscura, Castle Hil , Royal Mile OUTLOOK-^ TOWER AND CAMERA OBSCURA Step inside this unique 1850s 'cinema' for a experience of Edinburgh.

Aasunique brilliant, panorama your guidelive,tellsmoving, the story of the ciunfolds ty's HOLOGRAPHY ' 9 9 New, enlarged3D International Exhibition of astonishing disappear beforeimages you. which appear and PlAward-winning us: PINHOLE gift PHOTOGRAPHY; OPEN EVERY DAY 9.30amshop- 7.00pm Admission: - £3.95 - £3.15 Child - £1.95AdultConcession

PROVINCIAL BOOKSELLERS FAIRS ASSOCIATION 1 Venue 89 - Roxburghe Hotel, corner George St / Charlotte Sq I Edinburgh Festival BOOK FAIR Consort Suite Roxburghe Hotel (George st) August 9th to 4th Sept Daily Warn - 6pm, Mon - Sat Sunday's-Noon to 6pm Antiquarian & Second-hand books Maps & Prints: Admission Free

OUT OF THE NOMADSTENT Venue 142 - Out of the Nomads Tent, 21 St. Leonards Lane Myths

QUAKER FESTIVAL COMMITTEE NI4 Venue40 - The Quaker Meeting House,Victoria Terrace Mantras Mihrabs towards a SACRED COMMON WEALTH the earth

-JmM Contemporary Quaker artists poetry/storytelling hour each morning at 11.00 FREE all 3 weeks noon - 5.00 daily (not Suns) THE REYNOLDS GALLERY Venue 88 - The Reynolds Gallery, 63 Dublin Street

PHILLIPS AUCTIONEERS Venue 96 - Phil ips Auctioneers, 65 George Street The World of the Portrait Miniature An exhibition of a major collection of over 100 miniatures on show to the public for the first time.

16th August - 3rd September 1999 Mondays - Fridays 10am - 4pm Admission Free 17th August Portrait Miniature Study Day Free admission but limited spaces, please call to book Venue Phillips Edinburgh,Auctioneers, Scotland EH265 2JLGeorge Street, PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY Venue 42 - Portfolio Gallery, 43 Candlemaker Row

THE REYNOLDS GALLERY • contemporary art • 'About Face' New works by Mark lanson, Shelagh Atkinson Tuesday I 7th AugustSaturday I I th September 63 Dublin Street Edinburgh eh3 6ns tel: (0131) 557 0480 ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF EDINBURGH Kl I Venue 146 - Sir Jules Thorn Exhibition Hall,9 Hil Square LI3

GO JOHN STEZAKE R > 2 Q w CO 10 August - 4 September Mon - Sat 10.30 - 5.30 Free

HENRY WADE 1876 -1955 SCIENTIST, SOLDIER AND SURGEON An exhibition celebrating the life and work of Henry Wade, one of the most distinguished Edinburgh surgeons of this century.

10 August - 4 September 1999 Monday -10am Friday- 1pm 10am - 4pm Saturday The College is a registered charity 121

SCOTTISH NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY J8 Venue 44 - Scottish National Portrait Gallery I Queen Street

R.I.A.S. Venue 155 - RIAS Gallery, 15 Rutland Square 2-27 August 9am - 5pm, Mon - Fri 10am - 4pm, Sat admission free

15 RUTLAND SQUARE EDINBURGH EH 1 2 BE

Flesh + Stone (Part 1) Building a Scottish Identity Aarchitecture dynamic wiexhibition contemporarydrawings, Scottish j ATChitGCtUrQ models,ofThiphotographs, and voxth pops. focusesvideoon housing projects.s first structure of three 071 thf, FRIlMCjE_

Murray Johnston’s Landscape 1 1 JUNE - 5 SEPTEMBER An exhibition to celebrate the photographic work and critical influence of Murray Johnston, featuring a group of his own beautiful landscape photographs taken in Northumberland and the United States. It includes photographs and tributes from nine of the photographers, working in Scotland and internationally, who were taught by him.

Admission Free

THE ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY Venue 64 - Royal Scottish AcademyThe Mound The Royal Scottish Academy present CONNECTIONS Nezv works by members of the Royal Scottish Academy and their guests 7th AUGUST 19th SEPTEMBER Admission Free Festival hours: 10am-6pm daily 1 lam-6pm Sunday

SCOTTISH NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY Venue 44 - Scottish National Portrait Gallery I Queen Street

RUSKIN SCHOOL OF DRAWING AND FINE ART Venue 150 - Chessels Gallery

SONGS OF VOLATILITY: AND WORD DRAWINGS:MONOTYPE PATRICK JONES Venue 195 - Hawkins and Hawkins, 9 Atholl Crescent SONGS OF VOLATILITY: MONOTYPE AND WORD DRAWINGS PATRICK*JONES OPENING / READING / BOOK LAUNCH THURSDAY 12 AUGUST, 6PM,1999 EXHIBITION RUNS 8 - 24 AUGUST, 10AM - 5PM HAWKINS AND HAWKINS 9 ATHOLL GRES. EDINBURGH EH3 8HA

nm an exhibition of work by students from the ruskin school of drawing and fine art, oxford at the chessels gallery, chessels land (access through old playhouse close, off the royal mile) 9-27 august mon sat 10am 5pm ADMISSION FREE

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Sir WaiHjHHkand the Creation of Scotland 7 May -17 October 1999 Admission £4.00 Monday to Saturday 10am-5pm Sunday Extended hours during2-5pm. the Edinburgh Festival ^ BANK OF SCOTLAND

SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART STARVING WIFE ART COMPANY Venue 66 - Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 72 Belford Road HS Venue 23 - Chaplaincy Centre, I Bristo Square Joseph Beuys: Multiples 3 JULY - 1 9 SEPTEMBER Wishing to make his work available to a wide public, Beuys, one of the key artists of the post-war period, made multiple copies of many of his drawings, prints, photographs and sculptures. This is the first UK showing of the complete multiples, all lent from the Shlengel Collection.

Organised jointly with the Nationalgalerie in Berlin.

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Venue 23 admission free ▲rt company Sat Sun- 29th Daily7th12- pm 8 pmAugust (except Wed)

presents a gallery of art by new and emerging artists originals, prints and cards for sale The Chaplaincy Centre, 1 Bristo Square, Edinburgh, EHSTel: 0131 662 8882

STEEL BELLA VENUE Venue 61 - Steel Bella Venue, George IV Bridge, entrance on Victoria Street

STUDIO ONE GALLERY Kl I Venue 129 - Studio One Gallery, 10 Stafford Street

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by Lorraine Statham ‘Carpets and Rugs as an art form’ A colourful and fun collection of wonderful images, vibrant colours and sculpted surfaces AUGUST 8-30 MONDA Y- SA TURDA Y 9.30-6 SUNDAY 12-5.30 ADMISSION FREE THE STOCKBRIDGE BOOKSHOP Venue 156 - Stockbridge Bookshop, 26 North West Circus Place COLIN BAXTER S EDINBURGH limited edition prints for sale!

STOCKBRIDGE BOOKSHOP 26 N.W. CIRCUS PLACE, EDINBURGH Tel (0131) 225 5355 Sun: 1100-2000/Mon-Sat 0830-2000 August 8th - 30th Admission free

24 ROYAL CIRCUS G9 Venue 24 - 24 Royal Circus

FIO Oneness works by Guennadi Vassilkov Walter Ding Open Monday - Saturday 11 am - 6pm August 9 - September 4

GORDON STRACHAN Venue 23 - Chaplaincy Centre, I Bristo Square

THE WEST CLARE EXPERIENCE M6 LI2 Venue 117 -Viewforth Centre, 104 Gilmore Place The West Glare Experience THE WILD a series of complimentary images mergiry from the dramatic west dare landscape ISLANDS by artists working on the vievforih Prodution Picnic becomes pilgrimage on the tiny Garra Isles of Dancing at Lu^hnasa between Loch Kishorn and Plockton. Natural featuriifl... Naomi Wilson sanctuaries for wild life and the soul, they are SSSI’s - Sites of Special Scenic Inspiration for Brian Doyle photographs, paintings and found objects by Gordon Strachan and &Mike mc Guire friends. Also sundry cosmic thcompositions by Gordon Strachan.

Open August 8* - 28 , 10am - 5.50pm (not Sun). Free Friday 27th August, 5.30pm: Lecture by Gordon Strachan Adm. Free “In wildness is the preservation of the world” Ang 16th - 88th 2.00-6.00 p.m. - Viewforth Centre Cafe Galleiy

STREET ARTISTSHARRY - ELLEN DEAKIN, WEST END CRAFT AND DESIGN FAIR FRED DEAKIN, OLDEN Venue 127 - St John's Church, St John’s Church,West End, Princes Street Venue 97 - The Bellevue Gallery, 4 Bellevue Crescent WEST END CRAFT 1ST - 22ND AUGUST * 12 - 6PM AND DESIGN FAIR m) summerv^ Mon 9 to Sat 28 August Mmadness^ Open 11am—6pm Closed Sundays JA y'j a street art exhibition from the nightlife of ^ \ L FREE ADMISSION ELLEN DEAKIN HARRY OLDEN FRED DEAKIN An absolute muat, if you like buying Previous crimes include contemporary work direct from the craftworkers Foster’s Ice Street Art....Tribal Funktion...Lemon Jelly...Going Places... and designer-makers.

One of the Festival’s liveliest daytime venues.

The Bellevue Gallery 3 75 Exhibitors day, with Q 4 Bellevue Crescent, Edinburgh EH3 *0131 557 1663 He. change-overs every each weekend. art@pixi.demon.co.uk www.pixi.demon.co.uk

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K8 The Ark Venue 78 312.00-23.00 Semple Street Tickets 229 7733 Box Office: The Ark, Edinburgh' premier nightquality club, host last yearsvenue.

Perrier Awards party are presenting shows bar, ofs outstanding n an tooutstanding Main bar, cocktail snacks and drinks ipromotions.

Comedy <& Revue • Eddie Exposed How to use the Venue Index and Bunty Productions(22.i0n0)assoc, Ent page 23 Aug 23-28 £6.00with(£4.Meshuganeh 00) Use this index to find out what’s on at every Fringe venue.

Aug 27,28 (not 14.0027)(15.21.00 30) Theatre All live performance events are listed alphabetically by artform • &20thJudyCentury Legends: the Lives, Loves & Music of Frank Sinatra Garland category and each show has a page number linked to its entry Aabacus pageFri)72 15.45 (17.00) £6.50 (£5.50) in the main section of the programme.

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19.3000)(20.45) Aug 6,13,20 Need information on access?

Food and drink: Licensed Disabled: Wheelchair access.bar. Snacks available.

The Fringe office can provide sections of the Fringe Assembly Rooms programme in large print or on audio cassette tape.

Venue 3 54I George Street(Info Tickets 226 2428 Contact tel (0131) 226 5257 for further details.

Box Office: 624into2442) Open fromcomedy, 10 1.00-midnight in music, the morning tand il welldrama the night, the atObserver has the best dance available, the heartAssembly of the fringe.

The full programme is available on our web site Call for a brochure on 09065 151 551 calls cost £1.right 50 per minute. www.edfringe.com and can also be provided on disc.

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A Disability Fact sheet with more information is available from the Fringe Office.

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Customers can book tickets or seek information by Aug 20-22,27 15)1£9.00 00)00)Comedy Warehouse page 19 Carlton Comedy Warehouse Carlton calling us on our Minicom text phone: (0131) 220 5594. • Aug 6-9, I 1, 1 2, 1 5, 1 6, 1 8, 1 9, 2 3, 2 5, 2 6, 3 0 22.25(£8.(23.00)25) £8.00 (£7.00) 13,14,2The0-22,Observer 27,29 22.Assembly 25 (23.25)- £9.00 • Aug Cookin' Comedy 13 The Fringe Box office at 180 High Street is equipped Aug 6-12,15-19,23-26,30 22.

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0 0) £9.00(£9.(£8.page 13,Fulton 14,20,21,Dave 27-29Fulton 22.00 (23.page00)26£10.00 000)0) with an induction loop.

• Aug Dave Aug 6-12,15-19,23-26 23.23.30 30 (00.(00.330)0)£9.00 (£8.(£9.00)00) 13,14,20-22,and27-29 • Aug Dehydrated Travellin Light00) £9.£10.00 The00Observer Assembly - Comedy page 13 Venues included in the Fringe programme have provided basic Aug 17-19, 2 3, 2 5, 2 6, 3 0 18.

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Aug 20-22,27-29 18.5Road 0 (20.00)Ed£10.00 (£9.page0(£8.

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6 22.00 (23.00)(£8.£10.00 Aug 6,13,Ethical 00) £11.00 00) (£7.0'J0)ust Another Tickle' • Amnesty The Investment Co-operative’s International UK page 13 10.00 (11.4Greg 5) £ 12.Proops 00 (£ 10.page00) 39 Key to Disabled Information • Aug Greg86-12,15-19 Proops Aug 20.(21.3030)(21.

30) £9.00 Ent - Entrance i) distance in yards from road Aug 13, 1 4 20.

3 0 £10.00 (£9.0(£8.0)page00) 33 ii) number of steps • Aug Hattie6-12,15-19,23-26,30 Hayridge Hattie16.Hayridge 1 5 (17.

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300)0 (£9. £9.0000)(£8.00) WC (toilet). W (women's). M (men's). Level of WC locations Aug 13, 1 4, 2 0-22, 2 7-29 12.

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4 0 £9.£8.50 5page 0 (£8.(£7.IS50)50) • The McBeige Lecture Lenny Beige If possible, phone the venue in advance if you need assistance.

Preview Aug 6 19.

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0 0) The Fringe Office holds a list of access contacts for each venue Aug 8-12,15-19,24-26,30 (20.5)25)£9.50 £8.50(£8.(£7.50)50) 13,Millennium 14,20-22,27-29 19.19.2525(20. which we can mail to you in various formats.

• Aug The 9-12,15,16,18,19,23-26,30 Musical The11.21Reduced Shakespeare Company page 41 Aug 5 (13.

Aug 13,Mitchell 14,20-22,&2Webb 7-29 11.Story 15 (13.0Mitchell 0) £9.0000)&Webb (£8.£8.00 00) (£7.page00)36 For further information on access, contact the Lothian Coalition • The Preview Aug 6 21.30 (22.30) £6.00 of Disabled People on (0131) 475 2360 and ask for a copy of Aug 7-12,15-17,19,23,24,26,30 (22.30)(£8.£8.00 (£7.00) 'Access in Lothian'. Artiink is an organisation in Edinburgh 13,Nualas 14,20-22, 30 (22.21.30 30) £9.00 • Aug The -Assembly The27-29Big21.Shiny Dress Tour13 00) which may also be able to help with questions about access The Observer Comedy page on (0131) 229 3555.

Aug 6-12, 15,18.165018.(20.5000)(20.£9.50 00) £8.50 50) 13,14and (£8.50)(£7.Assembly • Aug Parsons Naylor The Observer - Comedy page 13 Preview Aug 6 19.

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0 (£8.00)00) Aug 20-22,27-29 Food and drink: Ful l y licensed bar and cafe alFll aday.t. Ballroom & Music Hall: Lift available.

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Venues The Attic KI2 Venue 56oneDowers Close,s most Cowgate The Attic, of Edinburgh' happening nightspots, i s transformed into this years most exciting Fringe venue, hosting two U.K. premiers (5 mins from the Fringe Office) on Cowgate.

Theatre • The Directing Preview16-28 AugI 1.153011.Exam 3000)(13.£5.S00)of00A£3.(£3.Productions 0000)(£2.00) page 109 Aug (13.

• Zoyka' Studio Aug 15-28s Apartment 16.30 (19.00) Empire £5.00 (£3.

00) Productions page 85 Augustine’s kii Venue 152 10.00-23.00 George IV Bridge 225 6575 Box Office: (Infolast225year,Tickets 6576) After exploding on the scene A ugustine' s returns with another superb season of classical contemporary theatres offers and music from four the heartandof the fringe, Augustine' a selection for alcontinents. l tastes. Perfectly positioned at Children' • Alice - sTheShows Junior School page 11 Aug 25-27 16.&Musical 3the 5 (18.31Bears 5)Wells £5.50&Cathedral (£4.

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1 5 (23.45) £5.6900 (£4.00) • Flood Company Aug 24-28Spectrum 13.The30 Robert (14.Youth 30) Theatre £5.00 (£3.

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• Aug Spinback 9,11,13,Inflate 1Inflate 5,18,2page 0,page 22,2915,9127,29 20.30 (21.50) £6.00 (£4.00) • Aug Spinout 10, 1 2, 1 4, 1 7, 1 9, 2 1, 24,Only 26,28,Connect 30 20.30 page (21.50)98 £6.00 (£4.00) • Aug The 9-14 Story13.of30Amba (14.Nottingham 30) £5.00 (£4.

00)Theatre page • Twice Nightly New 97 Aug 9-22 (not 16) 14.55 s(16.Othello 15) £5.0- 0A(£4.Play00)in Black • William Shakespeare' and White United Players Guild page 115 Aug 17-21 (not 12.4529)(14.10.25)45£5.(12.0025)(£3.00) Aug 24-30 • Wonderland Aug 17-30 (not 23)Edible14.Theatre 55 (15.55)page £5.0084(£3.50) Food and drink: Hot and cold drinks available day.

Disabled: Entrance ramp. Sanctuary: 10andyd snacks Flat. Studio: 30 strall HR. Balmoral Hotel Venue Princes Phones:51InfoI 556 2414Street Tickets 226 5138 Comedy <fi Revue • Aug One Lump or Two? Theatre (11.550)0)Natural £8.00 (£7.

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• Aug lain 9-13 Anderson 14.30(16.00) Free Musicals/Opera • Aug Movies and Shakers BBC Scotland page IS • Aug Godspell 19.Mighty & Yew00)Tree Theatre Productions page 68 00 (16.30) Free 3030(22.(19.Aphrodite 00)00)£6.00 (£5.

Aug 2022 16.11.30(12.00) Aug 9-14 16-21 16.Story • West Side Food and Ent: drink:levelLicensed.

Mighty Aphrodite & Yew Tree Theatre Productions page 68 Disabled: main door. Aud: 20yd flat.WC adapted.

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Aug 9-14 16-21 16.19.3030(19.(22.00)00)£6.00 (£5.00) Bedlam Theatre li i Theatre • The Land of 19.Igor30 (20.Compagnie Le Puits page 81 Aug Venue 49 Mb Bristo Place Tickets 225 9893 Aug 24,26,27 25 13.30 (14.

45) 45) £5.00 (£3.00) Box Office: 09.30-00.30 (Info 225 9873) Situated less than 2 minutes walk from the Royal Mi l e and less than 10 minutes from Food and Ent: drink:12ydCafe.ramped front & back.Aud: 16 Str HR. Lift.WC adapted.

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5 bus route.Talks, exhibition Aug 9-14 23.30 (midnight) £2.50 and Self-Esteem. Activities are free and open to allon. Raja Yoga Meditation, Positive Thinking Theatre Talks <£ Events • Adult Child/Dead Child 2 page • Aug Calming DownSuns)Brahma Kumaris 9-21 (nots 'S15)illy 12.Cow' 30 (13.Crumpet 4Stage 5) £5.00 (£4.00)109Company page 81 9-28 (not 14.30 (16.

30) Freepage 70 • Aug Ben Elton' Theatre Aug 23-28 16.

1 0 (17.

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• Aug Boots,23-28Boots, RAW00)Theatre Company page 103 10.30Kinky (11.Theatre 45)Boots! £6.0028 (£4.page • Aug Corpus Christ!

112 (£7.00) Brunton Theatre K22 Outer 9-28 (not Suns) 20.

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5 5) £10.00 • The Hunting the16.2Snark Venue 191 10.00-18.00 High Street,(20.00 Musselburgh Tickets evenings) 665 2240 9-21 (not 15)ofDevil' 0Kitchen (17.40)Edinburgh £5.00 (£3.University 50) page 81Theatre Company page 85 Box Office: on performance • Aug Leaving Lara s Productions Brunton Theatre wasexcellent recentlyauditorium.The refurbished to create aiswelcoming a 16-28 (not 22)Monarchs 22.30 (23.4Straight 5) £6.00Up(£4.Theatre 00) Company page 109 restaurant, bar andwith to getvenue to asoffering it is 4 miles • Aug A Load from city centre a good bus service and theatre loads of freeeasyparking.

9-21Backof(notOld 15)Anger 14.30 Edinburgh (15.30) £5.University 50 (£4.50)Theatre • Aug Look in Company page 85 Theatre 9-28 (notRapidSuns)Classics 18.10 (19.page45)103£5.00 (£3.50) • Aug A Madman Sings to the30 Moon Brunton(£3.Theatre • Aug Macbeth (21.(£4.30)00)£7.50 50) Company page 79 Aug 9-14 10.

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The Luckley-Oakfield Theatre Company page 95 Preview Aug11.73011.(12.3025)(12.£5.00 25) £3.00 8-17I Got (£3.00)Productions page 107 • Aug How that Story Seasonal 2,1Dolls 4,16,1House 8,20,22,24,Negative 26,28,30Equity 13.15 (14.10) £6.00 (£4.00) • Aug Out8,7-13 of10,the120.30 Aug (21.Productions 30) £5.00 (£3.page 50) 107 Theatre Company page 96 • Aug Reader Seasonal 12,14,16,Productions 18,20,22,24,26,28,3107 0 14.30 (15.40) £6.00 (£4.00) • Aug Road8,91,0,Seasonal 13,15,Bound 17,19,2Us1,23,2bst5,page 2Productions 7,29 13.00 (14.page 10) £6.00 (£4.00) • Aug The 7,20-30 Ties11,that 16.30 (17.40)National £6.00 (£4.

00)Theatre of Great79 Britain page 96 • 2:18 Underground Youth Previews 18.3018.(19.30 3(19.

0) £3.00 Aug 16-3014,(not15 23) 30) £6.50 (£4.50) Visual Arts • Aug Starving Wife Art Company 7-29 Weds) Gordon 12.00 (20.00)Starving Free Wife Art Company page 111 • The Wild(not Aug 8-28 (notIslands Suns) 10.00 (17.Strachan 50) Free page 113 Disabled: -DOWNSTAIRS - Ent:40yd30ydFlat.I Aud: UPSTAIRS Enc 30yd FlatWC.Aud: l + l I 20yd Str HR.FlatWC. Christie's Comedy Cellar kio Venue 106 12.00-01.00 27-31 West Port, Grassmarket Tickets 228 3765 Box Office: Comedy <6 Revue • Aug Big Word Performance s Comedy Cellar page II 45 (20.0Christie' 5) £5.00Poetry 00)Christie' • Aug Bottle6-30 & 21.18.Mango s (£4.

Comedy Cellar page 11 6-11 0 0 (21.

5 0) £4.00 (£3.

5 0) 0 (21.Earhole 50) £5.00 Peter (£4.00)Buckley Hil page 17 • Aug Free12-24 PBH21.17.of03the 16-30 5 (18.Hits 25) Free (noBigticket required) • Aug Raymond Mearns the Aug 15-30 20.45 (21.55) £5.00 (£4.Time 00) Christie's Comedy Cellar page II Music • Aug Living6-20Room 22.30Legends/Travler (23.45) £3.00 (£2.00)Classy Bitch Productions page 51 Food and drink: Snack baskets availablechair - baraccess open ifrom 12.00-03.00.

Disabled: admitted.Wheel s available; please phoneGuide aheaddogsto arrange.

Church Hill Theatre 06 Venue 137 Morningside Road Comedy <£ Revue • Aug Marion Maud's Teatime 26-27& 17.30(18.30) £5.00Tryst Tempo Musical Productions page 43 Dance/Physical • Song Aug 1617of16.10.Myself 1155 (17.

44American 5)5) £5.00 (£3.High00)School Theatre Festival page 44 Aug (11.

Aug 18 12.

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4 Aug 20 20.15 (21.45)5)

Music • The Andrew14.0Bain Aug 23-27 0 (15.Quartet 00) £4.00 Tempo Musical Productions page 63 Musicals/Opera • Chess Tempo Musical Aug 30 (22.

5) Productions £9.00 (£7.50) page 69 Aug 23-28 28 14.of319.0 Eden (17.

15)1American • Children Aug 1617 22.12.1155 (13.

445)5) £5.00 (£3.0High 0) School Theatre Festival page 65 Aug (23.5 (17.

Aug 20, 2 1 16.

1 4 5) • Aug Crazy18 for20.1You America: Aug 19 10.16.11555 (21.

(17.44455)5) £5.00 (£3.00) Aug 20 (11.

21 18.15(19.45) • AAug Midsummer Night'Theatre s Dream page 65 American School Aug 1517 20.16.High 1155 (21.

455) £5.00 (£3.Festival 00) Aug (17.

4 Aug 19 18.10.15(11.45) 15 (19.45) Aug 21 • Aug Oklahoma American High School Theatre Festival page 65 1517 22.18.1155 (23.

Aug (19.4445)5)5) £5.00 (£3.00) Aug 19 20.

1 5 (21.

Aug 21 12.15(13.45) • Oklahoma!

Aug 3Lothian 0 (21.

0)Youth £6.00Arts(£5.&00)Musicals Company page 67 Aug 10-14 14 14.319.0 (16.

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• Schoolhouse Rock American High School Theatre Festival page 65 Aug 1618 14.15(15.45) Aug 10.1155 (19.

(11.4455) £5.00 (£3.00) Aug 20 18.

Aug 21 22.15American (23.45) Hig! • Working Aug 1618 22.18.1155 (23.

Aug (19.445)5) £5.01 Aug 2019 12.14.1155 (13.

Aug (15.445)5) Theatre • An American Clock£5.00American High School Theatre Festival page 73 Aug Aug 161719 20.22.10.15(11.45) 1155 (21.

445)5) (£3.00) Aug (23.

Aug 21 14.15(15.45) • Aug Kaleidoscope American High School Theatre Festival page 73 (19.

Aug 1716 14.18.12.111555 (15.

(13.4445)5)5) £5.00 (£3.00) Aug 18 20 22.1American 5 (23.45) High School Theatre Festival page 73 • Aug Quilters Aug 18 22.14.1155 (23.

45) £5.00 (£3.00) Aug 19 (15.

Aug 20 20.12.1155 (21.

(13.4445)5)5) Aug 21 • The Servant ofTwo MastersFestival page 73 American School Aug 1617 20.14.High 1155 (21.

445)5) £5.Theatre 00 (£3.00) Aug (15.

Aug Aug 1819 16.10.1155 (17.

(11.445)5) Club West at the Edinburgh Dance Centre Venue 182337 Westfield Ave (next to B&Q) L/ Tickets 0748 (fromHalls, Aug 8)10337Westfield Box Office: I 1.00-19.00 (Info 0748) Newtheatre, venue. New club.bestOffering anight diverseHouse/Garage/Techno/Drum+Bass programme of innovative dance, music, and in late 23.00-03.

00 niplusghtlthey. Licensed bar/food and Sunday is Seventies Night. beats All shows listed below can be found under Club West Comedy & Revue • Aug Don'9-28 t Look My 21.Sister... (notAtSuns) 00 page (22.Innit!

0II0) £6.00 page (£5.0110) • Aug Falling9-14From Grace 22.30 (23.

3 0) £6.

0 0 (£5.

0 0) • The Funjabi23.30Show Aug 23-28 (00.30) page £6.0011(£5.00) Dance/Physical • G.O.4.-A 45 (£5.00) 9-28Red (notTechnodram Suns) 19.3page 0 (20.45page 30) £6.00 • Aug Korean Fires Aug 23-28 18.

0 0 (19.

0 0) £6.

0 0 (£5.

0 0) • Aug Livin'9-21Ere(not page Suns)4518.Brutal 00 (19.Telling 00) £6.00 (£5.page00)45 • Aug Mascall Dance:The 16-28 (not Suns) 22.30 (23.30) £6.00 (£5.00) Music • John Otway22.00page Aug 8,15,22 (23.0510) £8.00 (£7.00) Theatre • Aug Beckett theSuns) Afternoon 9-28toin(notthe 14.00 (16.00)page £6.008181(£5.00) • Aug Minute Millennium page 9-28 (not Suns) 16.

3 0 (17.

3 0) (£5.00) • Tai page11.8100 (12.00) £6.00 Aug Chi 9-28Tea(not Suns) £5.00 (£4.00) Food and Good drink:flatLicensed 129 Disabled: access.til 03.00

Continental Shifts at Springwell House L3 Venue 32 Ardmillan Terrace, offSt Gorgie Rd. Tickets3463461405.)

1405 (St Brides) Box 22.00 from Bride'Shiftss (Messages PartnerOffice: toproductions. the10.00 world- famous Continental at St.edge Bride'ofs.theatre A uniquethat'theatre stunning An outer venue at the cutting s easy tohousing get to.

Well worth the visit.

Dance/Physical • Alone, Alone,Coupled Coupled and Bunched Artists page 44 23-28 20.15&(21.Bunched 35) £6.00featuring (£4.00)Chicago Sanguine • Aug L'AugEmbarquement 9-28 (not Suns) 18.La30Compagnie (19.30) £5.00Orange (£3.00) page 47 Theatre • Yes,Yes,Yes 104 (£3.00) Aug 16-28 (notRidiculusmus 22) 16.00 (17.0page 0) £6.00 Food and Enc drink:5ydCoffee andArefreshments Disabled: 2 Str HR. ud: I Oyd 7+9+4 Str HR WC (W 25" M 24").

Continental Shifts at St Bride's ks Venue 62 1010.00-22.00 Orwell Terr.(InfoTickets 346 1405 Box Office: 346 1405) The of dance, physical visualthan theatre. movement toworldwide beveryseenbestreputation on the Fringe" The Lisandt. Closer you "The think,sobestmake it a must,basedit's programme worth it. A for excellence.

Dance/Physical • Alone, Alone,Coupled Coupled& and Bunched Artists page 44 16-21 No22.0Ordinary 0 (23.Bunched 20)Angels/Cultura £6.00featuring (£4.00)Chicago • Aug Deadly Inglesa-SP page 48 Aug 16-28 12.

3 0 (13.

2 0) £6.00 (£4.

0 0) • Aug Moorland s(£4.Ballet00) page 46 9-14 14.Theatre 3Evgueni 0 (15.Talipot 15)Panfilov' £6.00page • Aug Passage 49 (£7.00) 5-28 (not Suns) 18.

0 0 (19.

• Something to 22)Remember me30)0)£6.By£8.50 Aug 16-28 (not 14.

0 0 (15.

3 00 Diakonos (£4.00) Physical Theatre page 45 • Aug The 5-28 Water(notCarriers Suns) 16.0Theatre 0 (17.20)Talipot £8.50 (£7.page00)49 Musicals/Opera • The Black10.Rider Theater, Aug 23-28 45 (12.Metropol 45) £8.00Theatre (£5.00) Munich page 67 • Aug Cabaret 5-21 (notEdinburgh Suns) 22.Youth 30 (00.30) £5.00page(£2.6650) Theatre • Aug The9-28 House(notofSuns) Pootsie Canada' 20.00Plunket (21.page 30) £7.00 (£5.s0Catalyst 0) Theatre page 81 • Aug Yes,Yes,Yes 9-14 22.00Ridiculusmus (23.00) £6.00 (£3.

00)104 Food and Ent: drink:2 1/Licensed bistro and bar. flatWC adapted level access.

Disabled: 2 ydhelpramped.

Guide dogs admitted, available,Audvery15ydaccessible.

Corstorphine Youth Centre hi Outer Venue Kirk007Loan9164Tickets 0797 007 9164 Phones:71Info120797 Theatre • Aug Men Should Weep Edinburgh Theatre Arts page 85 Aug 9-21 14,21 (not14.4015)(17.19.20)40 (22.20) £7.00 (£6.00) Crowne Plaza Hotel ki3 Venue 39 80 High Street Tickets 220 4349 Talks <£International Events CD and Record Fair • 6th International Fair00)page 71 Aug 20 11.00C.D (19.00&0)0)Record £1.50 (£1.

Aug Aug 2122 10.10.0000 (19.

(17.00) Visual Arts • Crucian!

Aug 14-21 Massimo 10.00 (20.00)Massimo Free Cruciani page 118 D.E.A.F. @ St Mary's Cathedral ie Venue 109 10.00-17.00 St. Mary's Cathedral, Palmerston Place Tickets 557 0707 Box Office: (Infoan 557 0707) Richard Demarco contributes international dimension to the Fringe with productions from Hungary,cathedral, Spain, Italywithinandshort Switzerland. of St Mary'Australia, s Episcopal,England, three spired walkingWithin distancetheofprecincts Princes Street.

All shows listed below can be found under Demarco European Art Foundation DancelPhysical • Aug Crime7-14&(not Punishment - A 0)Shibboleth 8) 22.(01.

00 (23. £7.00 (£5.0/0)Sinequanon Production bage 45 16-21Dance midnight 00)-0Secrets • Aug Nomad Theatre Aug 16-21 14.00 (15.00) £5.00 (£3.00) page 45 130

• Aug Nomad - Hotel 16-21Dance 22.00 Theatre (23.0Company 0) £5.00 (£3.- Baggage 0Nada 0) pagepage4545 • Aug Pathways Theatre 7-21 (not Suns) 16.

0 0 (17.

0 0) £7.00 (£5.Hausfrau 00) • Songs ofWetzikoner page 45 Aug 9-14-from 18.0the 0 (19.Diary 00)Myth £7.00 (£5.

00) Angle • Turul Grotesque of a Plucked page 45 Aug 9-21 (not 15) 20.00 (21.

0 0) £6.00 (£4.

0 0) • War! Aug 12-14page 22.0045(23.00) Free Theatre • Aug Death16-21of a12.Salesman page(£5.8100) 00) £7.00 • Aug Fragments of0000the(13.

Wall - St Leonard' 11-14 14.

(15.

0 0) £7.00 00) s School page 81 • Aug Marriage Mihaly(£5.

16-21 of18.Kocsonya 00 (19.00) £7.00 (£5.00)page 81 Diverse Attractions j 11 Venue I I Riddles Court, off Lawnmarket Tickets 225 8961 Box Office: 09.30-midnight Edinburgh' s uniqueandaward community venue. Between the isponsored polish ofreason the Assembly the10amdirewinning of the Cafe.Theatre. commercial fringe, s a venue where prevails. Open torisksmidnight.

Musicthere and poetry.

All shows listed below can be found under Diverse Attractions unless otherwise stated Comedy RevueTickled Pink Productions page 43 • The Big<£Stink Aug 23-28 21.45 (23.00) £5.00 (£3.50) Theatre • The Architect and13.the Assyria Aug 9-21 (not 15)page (15.Emperor 15) £5.00of(£3.

50) page 82 • Aug Balthazar 820)45£3.50 9-14 12.

0 0 (13.

0 (£2.

5 0) • Aug Chekhov' s11.Shorts 82(£3.50) 45 (13.

15) page £5.00page • Aug Death23-28 Without Tears 9-14 19.

4 5 (21.

1 5) £6.00 (£4.8250)Maxwell page 82 • Aug Einstein presents: James Clerk 9-14 21.

5 5 (23.

1 0) £5.00 (£4.00) • Aug Filabeg 16-21International 18.00 (19.page 15) 82£6.00page(£5.8200) • Aug Flame-Dance 12-14 45) £3.50 (£2.00) (C £0.50) • Aug Four23-28 Maries19.12.4050 (12.

(20.page8245)82£5.50 (£4.50) • Gaveston page Aug 23-28 12.0page 0 (13.05) £5.00 (£4.00) • Aug Haunted 16-21Run19.Theatre 45 (21.8215)Company £6.00 (£4.00) • Aug Home26-28 21.4page 5 (23.8215) £3.50 (£2.50)page 82 • Aug Hostages 16-28 22) Bablake 16.00 (17.at0Diverse 0) £4.00Attractions (£3.00) page 77 • The Insect(not Play Aug 16-21 13.

4 5 (15.

2 0) £4.00 • Jane Bom-BaneSuns) 17.page45 (19.

82 15) £5.50 (£2.50) • Aug The 9-28 Losing(not Game/Still Life(£4. page 82 Aug 9-14 13.

4 0 (15.

2 0) £5.50 • Aug Machinal page 8215) £3.50 (£2.50)00) (C £0.50) 11-14 18.

3 0 (19.

• Aug The9-14 Maids22.00 (23. page15)82£5.50 (£4.00) • Aug Memories of0Childhood page00)82 23-28 20.

0 (21.00) £5.00 (£4.

• Aug 191411-14page 82(21.

20.00 0 0) £4.00 (£3.

• Aug Robert Burns 82 (£3.000)0) 20.00 (21.page 00)Chicago £4.00 • Aug Sexual18-21 Perversity in 16-21 22.00 (23.110)0) £6.00 (£5.00)page 82 Aug 23-28 18.00 (19.

• Shakers Re-Stirred page 82 15.45 (17.15)page£5.00 • Aug The 9-14 Sisterhood 82 (£5.00) Aug 16-21 22.

0 0 (23.

1 5) £6.00 • Aug Sometime Poet (Again!) page 82 16-21 12.

0 0 (13.

0 0) £5.00 • Tam Lin - A Journey page(£4.(£3.8200)00) Aug 9-1416.00 (17.

0 0) £5.00 • Tower page (£2.

82 00) (C £0.50) Aug 11-14Block 17.4Kisses 5 (18.page 30) £3.50 • Twelfth Night 82 (£2.

Aug 23-28 14.

0 0 (15.

0 0) £3.50 00) • Aug Understanding 23,24Tom 21.45 GASP (23.Magazine 15) page £3.5087 page 82 • Vinegar Aug 16-21 12.00 (13.20) £6.00 (£4.00) Food and Enc drink:3ydCafe Disabled: Flat.alAlud:day.25yd Flat.

Dominion Cinema ps Outer Venue 186 10.30-19.00 18 Newbattle(Mon-Sat) Terrace 13.00-19.00 Tickets 447(Sun) 4771 (Info 447 2660) Box Office: Nineteen Four halls.Thirties Bar/cafeart-deco finished designed to luxurycinema standard.in a suburb, close to city centre.

Musicals/Opera • Aug Lucia19-26Nepotism 18.15 (20.Productions 00) £4.00 (£3.page00)68 Food and drink: Food and available Disabled: Call box office fordrink disabled access information.

Drummond Community Theatre fis Venue Drummond Community High School, 41 Bellevue PI Tickets25558 9695 (after Phones: Messages 557 149014 July) All shows listed below can be found under Festival Theatre USC-USA Children' s ShowsMan, Charlie Brown page 9 • You' Aug 7,re14,A2Good 1,28 12.00 (13.00) £5.00 (C £2.00) Comedy <£ Revue in 30 Minutes page 24 • Aug StarWarsTrilogy 7,7,184,,121,1,123-15, 7,28 23.00 8 I 1.18,0(Patter 020,(12.21,020)5,for2£5.00 £2.(midnight) 00) Lady£5.00 • Aug 3-The x Steve Martin the24(CFloating -Guillotine Zig-Zag Woman) page Aug 10,12,17,19,24,26 23.30 (00.15) £5.00 Musicals/Opera • Aug N unsense 8,&1Crumpets 4,15,21,2page 2,28- 66A21.New 30 (23.Musical 30) £5.00 page 66 • Tea Aug 6, 1 1, 1 3, 1 8, 2 0, 2 5, 2 7 21.30 (23.

15) £5.00 • Working Aug 10,12,17,1page 9,24,2666 21.30 (23.30) £5.00 Theatre • Aug Bad 10,Seed13,17,20,page24,2877 19.00 (21.30) £5.00 • Aug Dracula 7,11,Sang 14,1page 8,2For1,2865,My28 Father 16.00 (18.30)page£5.0086 • Aug I Never 8, 1 2, 1 5, 1 9, 22,26 19.0page 0 (21.15) £5.00 • Aug National Anthems 10,13,17,2page 0,24,8627 16.00 86(18.30) £5.00 • Aug The 6,8,Price 12,15,19,22,26 16.00 (18.30)page £5.00 • Aug Six Degrees I 1,14,18,2of1,2Separation 5,28 19.00 (20.30) £5.0087 Disabled: Access for wheelchair users (at rear of theatre).

Dr Watt's Library kis Venue 92 3 Robertson' s Close, Cowgate Info 557 3768 Box library Office:Tickets available fromquiet 21.00policy.on Tdoor The has by no means a keep he tables have only just recovered frbm last day its a relaxer with food ranking from chillis to Rogan Josh, by night don'years t bringparty. a goodBy book.

Music • Aug Cheese 13,14,2k20,2Cheese 1,27,28 2K21.00at Doctor (03.00) Watts £3.00 Library page 51 Food and drink: Meals served all day, bar open until 03.00.

Duddingston Kirk Manse Garden pn Outer Venue 121 10.00-19.00 Old Church(Fringe), La., Duddingston Village 226 9742) 5138 Box Office: 19.00-20.00 (venue)Tickets (Info 665 Beautiful garden setting next to the old Kirk, and overlooking Duddingston Loch made famous by 'The Skating Minister'Queen' . Carpark Commonwealth Pool through s Park.off Duddingston Road. 20 min walk from the Theatre • Tamlane Aug 19-22,2Theatre 6-29 20.1Alba 5 (22./ MPR 00) £7.00page(£5.11100) Food and drink: Coffee, tea, biscuits, Disabled: Fully accessible, disabled toiletetc.on site.

Venues The Edinburgh International Book Festival Venue D Charlotte Square Gardens Tickets 624 5050 H9 Box Office:liv10.00-20.00 (Infoof the228written 5444)word in the world, hosting its own unique The largest i n g celebration range of author events forSquare adultsGardens; and children canvasconversation, and in the beautiful Spiegeltent imusic n Charlotte debates,underreadings, lectures,1930's workshops, and literary surprises...

All shows listed below can be found under Edinburgh International Book Festival Music • Annie Nightingale page(£6.5200) 21.00 (03.page 00) £8.00 • Aug Bert2527Jansch 52 (£6.

Aug 21.

0 0 (23.

0 0) £8.00 00) • Aug Bluer28,than this:(23.John00) Harvey 9 21.00 £7.page0052(£5.&0Second 0) Nature page 52 • Aug Cuban21,22Cigar Club 2 21.30 (23.&3The 0) £7.00 (£5.00)Stone Band page 52 • Aug Duncan 15,16McLean 21.00 (23.00) £7.Smoking 00 (£5.00) Theatre • Aug Kinky20 Friedman page 21.00 (23.00) £7.00 84(£5.00) Food and drink: Cafeaccess.WC and bar, 09.for30-midnight.

Disabled: Wheelchair disabled.

Edinburgh Playhouse hm Venue 59 18-22 Greenside PI.onTickets 0870 606days)3424(Info 557 2692) Box Office: 10.00-18.00 (20.00 performance Box office number: National Call Rate 7p per minute.

Comedy <£- Crusaid Revue & The Food Chain • Benefit Benefit21 -20.00 Crusaid(23.&The Food Chain50) page 15 Aug 00) £15.

50 (£14.

• Aug Bill Bailey y page 24 23.00 Bi(00.l Bai30)le£10.

50 (£8.13 50) Food and Ent: drink:3ydLicensed at time Disabled: 3 Str. Maibarn Aud: Circleof atperformance. street level, stalls down 3 flights.

Edinburgh Rudolf Steiner School os Venue 35 60/64 Spylaw Road Children' s Shows • The Golden Aug 19-25 14.0Bird 0 (15.0The 0) £2.Rose00 Theatre Company page 11 Theatre • Thirteen Aug 17-25 Mirrors 20.00 (22.3The 0) £10.Rose00Theatre (£5.00) Company page 105 The Famous Grouse House K12 Venue 34 509.30-midnight Chambers Street Tickets 220 5606 Box Office: Home to thetheatre finest traditional and Scottish musicians, innovative contemporary acclaimed magicalhave children' s shows,at theenjoy all this anddancers, ceilidh aninto the early hours of programme the morning or just a wee dram cafe/bar. l shows listedpresents belowunless can beotherwise found understatedThe Famous Grouse House - Scottish Edinburgh Academicals Football Club es AlInternational Venue 154 09.00-18.00 Portgower (Info Place,225off 5007) Raeburn Place Tickets 225 5007 Children' s Shows Box Office: Dr Bunhead' s Springly New Set15 minutes in the heart beautiful Football Clubbars,is only • Aug 6-8,18-22,25-29 (11.195)Cook £4.00Book (£3.00) page 9 walkoffromshops.

PrincesStockbridge, Street, andthecloseEdinburgh to a wideAcademicals range of cosmopolitan • The Little14.Red00 (14.

Hen510.0)1£4.5 page delis and specialist Aug 24-29 0 0 (£3.

0 0) • Aug Matilda Hong16)Kong12.0Youth Festival(£3.0page Talks <£ EventsHas Left The Building... The Flouse of Bacchus page 71 6-22 0 (13.Arts 00) £5.00 0) 9 • The • The Really(not Aug 27Festival 12.00 (02.00) £15.00 (£12.00) Aug 9-15 10.1Dangerous 5 (11.15) £4.Safety 00 (£3.Show 00) page 9 Food and drink: Bar and food stalls Comedy <fi Revue • Aug Life,6-22 Love, Death...(01.And (notSex16)andmidnight 00) £7.Other 00 (£5.Works 00) in Progress page 24 Edinburgh Academy no Dance/Physical Venue 70 4209.00-17.00 Henderson(Messages Row 332 3894) • Andrew Box Office: 24-29Howitt 16.in15Night (17.in The 15)Sullied £7.Memory 00 (£5.

00)Palacepage 46page 47 • Aug Coroboree Flesh Talks & Events Aug 6-15 23.

1 5 (00.

1 5) £7.00 (£5.

0 0) • Aug Diana21,Cooper One Day Workshops Body And Soul Health Fair page 70 • Aug Dying6-15for18.lt...with Company page 47 22 11.00 (18.Health 00) £45.00 00 (19.Ronnie 0Joy' 0) £7.s Rae 00 (£5.

0)with Sheridan • Aug Mind21,Body • Aug Fionna24-26Duncan, Trio0(£5.

Nicol & Jazz Art UK page 46 22 11.Spirit 00 (18.00) £2.00Fair(£1.5Body 0) And Soul Health Fair page 70 midnight (01.

1 5) £7.00 0 0) • Aug Fresh17-22 Mess16.and Iona30)Kewney page 46 Disabled: Full disabled access.

3 0 (17. £7.

0 0 (£5.

0 0) (15.30)It's So Dark Big Onion page 44 • Aug I Can'24-29 See(not14.A316,0Thing 6-29t Booth 23) 21.3460 (22.30) £7.00 (£5.00) • Aug Laurie Aug 6-15 16.30 (17.page 30) £7.00 (£5.00) THE FAMOUS GROUSE HOUSE continues over the page 131

Venues THE FAMOUS GROUSE HOUSE continued • Aug Leikenloppu 14.3in0 The (15.3Tailors 0)page£7.0470 (£5.page 00) 46 • Aug Mimi24-29 La Sardine 18-29 (not 23) 22.

0 5 (23.

2 0) £7.00 • Aug Mori6-15Porti22.(I15would you)00) (£5. page00)46 (23.15)diepage £7.00for46(£5.

• Aug Steinvor Palsson 6-11 18.Butohsha 15 (19.15)with£7.0Kayo 0 (£5.00) • Aug Torifune 46 12-22 18.Music 15 (19.&15)Contemporary £7.00 (£5.Mikame 00) Dancepage page • Traditional 46 Aug 24-29 12.

3 0 (13.

3 0) £7.00 (£5.

0 0) • Workshops page 46 Music • Ando Drom 00.30- Authentic (02.page30)54£7.50Hungarian (£5.50) Gypsy Music page 53 • Aug Bag 9-12 O'C21.ats Aug 23 3 0 (23.

2 0) £7.50 (£5.

50) • Aug Barrage19.15 page (21.0535) £7.50page(£5.5450) • Aug The 910Barra McNeils 15 (23.05) £7.5530 (£5.50) • Aug Bruce1221.Davies 21.45 (23.3-0)page £7.50 (£5.

50) • Bruce Mathiske Guitar Sensation Bruce16-29 Mathiske - (19.

Guitar Sensation page 58 Aug 18.

1 5 1 5) £6.00 (£4.

• The Bumblebees page 53 50)00) Aug 22 19.

1 5 (21.

0 5) £7.

5 0 (£5.

• Aug Burach 5430) £7.50 (£5.50) 28 21.- 4the 5page(23.Marwicks • Ceilidhs page 53 Aug 6-8,13-15,20-22,27-29 midnight • Aug Celtic8 21.Wah-Wah page(£5.

5450) (03.30) £7.50 (£5.50) 4 5 (23.

3 0) £7.50 • Aug Claire13 McLaughlin Marianne 15 (21.5305) &£7.50 (£5.50) Campbell page 53 • Aug Cliar7 19.19.1page 5 (21.

0 5) £7.50 (£5.

• Colin Reid 53£6.00 (£4.50)00) 14Gaughan 21.00 (22.page 00)page • Aug Dick 20 19.Black 15 (21.and05)Malcolm £7.5540 (£5.Jones 50) • Aug Donald Aug 11 21.

4 5 (23.

3 0) £7.50 (£5.50) page 53 • Aug Fiddler' s Bid page 53 21.45 (23.Music 30) £7.50 (£5.50) 53 • Aug Free256-8,11-15,18-22,25-29 Acoustic Sessions 20.30 (03.3page 0) Free • Gordon Giltrap page 53 Aug 29 21.

4 5 (23.

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Fringe Club J12 Venue 2 InfoOld226Assembly Close Tickets 226 5138 Phones: 3863workshops, The Fringe Club offers masterclasses, trade shows, open forums to Fringe performers throughout the Fringe.

Talks &Allen Events • The Allen Wright Award page 70 12and12.the 1Wright 5 (13.Millennium 45)Debate Free - accessibility • Aug Arts and excellence Culture Wars page 70 12 14.Diversity 30 (16.00) and FreeScotland (tickets fromCulture FringeWars Box Office) • Aug Cultural page 70 15 14.Training 30 (16.0Conference 0) Free (ticketsFringe from Fringe Box • Aug Drama Club pageOffice) 71 Aug I I 12.

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(12.00) Free Disabled: Help always available, please call in advance on 226 3863 rjv-qT The Garage Theatre ' Venue 81 Grindlay Court Centre, Grindlay Street Tickets 221 9009 Box Office: I 1.00-23.00 (Info 221 9009) The newAmerica. international venue hosting artists fromoneEurope, Australia North South Four venues.The and ofonlyAsia, sushi bar inandthemasks.

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29 Kahlo 5 (16.Martha 15) £5.00 (£3.50) • Aug LaAugFlor 8-14,22,24-30 18.22.3000(19.(23.300)0)£6.00 (£5.00)Furey Productions page 95 Aug 15-21 (not 16) • Aug Libby8,10,The12,1Eccentric Company 6,Satyros 18,20Theatre 11.00 (12.

25) £6.00pagepage (£5.8400)98 • Aug Maldoror Os04,01(00.

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2Tropical 8,3105) 14.£3.50 45Trees (16.(£3.15)00)Japan £5.00Experience (£3.50) page 92 • Theatre Soleil Aug 8-21 13.11.0000(14.(12.30)30)£8.00 (£7.00) Aug 22-30 • Aug unBecoming Mountaintop Players00) Ensemble page 96 8-30 Conduct I 1.30 (12.

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0 0 (£4.00) page 91 • Wreck Aug 8-29the19.Airline 30 (20.45)Barrier £5.00 (£4.The00)Riot Group page 104 Food and Good drink:disabled Sushi Baraccess. and Ndebele Cafe.

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\|e*w<£r Venues George Square Theatre mii Venue 37 George Square Tickets 662 8740 Box Office: 10.00-22.30 (Info 662 8740) Comedance. roundRelax to George Square andcafe-bar discover, antheoasisveryamong best thein theatre, comedy and in our terraced bustle ofmusicals, the Fringe.

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• Aug BBC16New Awards Grand Final BBC New Comedy Awards page 14 20.00Comedy (22.00) Free • Johnny Aug 10-15Vegas: 21.45Happy (23.00)Days £9.50Are(£7.Here 50) Again! Johnny Vegas page 43 Dance/Physical • Aug Peter13-21and (not the Wolf 16) 11.and 00 (12.Sunrise 00) £6.00Burklyn (£4.00)Youth Ballet page 44 Musicals/Opera • The Legend10.0of0 (12.

Brigadoon La Danse Fantastique page 67 Aug 25-28 0)National £6.00 (£4.

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4 0) £8.00 (£6.00) • They Shoot Horses Don' t They National Youth Theatre of Great Britain page 96 Previews 7-10 16.00(18.15) £3.00 Aug 11-30 (not 16) 16.00 (18.15) £9.50 (£6.50) Food and Not drink:accessible Cafe barforopenwheelchairs every day.

Disabled: Guide dogs admitted to auditorium. or those with mobility difficulty.

Gilded Balloon at La Belle Angele Ki2 Venue 101 10.00-01.00 I I Hasties Close, off 6550) Guthrie Street Tickets 226 2151 Box Office: (Info 226 intriguing, and diverse programme theImaginative, very essence of theinvigorating, Fringe. Soakinternational in the atmosphere in the- acafes, bars andwhich clubs.encapsulates Comedy <& Revue • Baby6-29wants18.3Candy Gilded Balloon 0 Gilded (19.45)Balloon £7.00 (£6.

00) 30page 30 • Aug Further Ted page 6-30Benn 21.15 (22.15)Benn£7.50page (£6.50) • Aug Mitch6-30 Aug 20.00 Mitch (21.00) £7.00 (£6.0150) Theatre • Aug Gentlemen 10-30 (notVolunteers 16,23) 17.00Gilded (18.15)Balloon £7.00 (£6.page00)88 Food and drink: Drinks licence t i l 4am.

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Gilded Balloon at the Palladium Gi4 Venue 26 Broughton Place Tickets 226 2151 Box Office: 10.00-01.00 (Info 557 1854/226 6550) intriguing, and diverse programme theImaginative, very essence of theinvigorating, Fringe. Soakinternational in the atmosphere in the- acafes, bars andwhich clubs.encapsulates Comedy <£ Revue • Best ofBalloon the Festat the- ThePalladium Early Edition30 Gilded8-12 Aug 22.23.1545(23.(00.30)45)£8.50 (£7.page 50) Aug 13-17 • Aug Dylan13-17Moran The Last Gasp at the Palladium page 30 22.30 (23.3Ennio 0) £9.Marchetto 50 (£8.5Gilded 0) pageBalloon • Aug Ennio25-30Marchetto 35 20.17.30(18.30) 45 (21.45) £10.50 (£8.50) Aug 28,29 • Jim RoseBalloon Circus: of the Strange Gilded at theSecrets 8-24 (notGilded Weds) 20.Palladium 45at(22.the00)page £9.5030 (£8.page 50) 30 • Aug Ratpack Balloon Aug 18-30 22.30 (01.00) £10.50 (£9.Palladium 50) Dance/Physical • Aug Gumboots Gumboots 7-30 6,213)5 (16.19.03page 0 (20.4715) £9.50 (£8.50) Aug 14,15,(not 213.1,248,25115.(15.

Aug 28-30 00) 0) Musicals/Opera • Little Shop of6,7Horrors Zoo£7.00 T. C. (£5.page00)69 Previews Aug Aug 8-16, 118-27 17.22,17.020500(18.13.(18.0300)30)(14.£9.00 00) Aug 11, 1 4, 8, 2 1, 30)0(£7. £9.00 Aug 28-30 15.30(17.00) £9.00 (£7.

0) (£7.00) Food and drink: Licensed bar, snacks and refreshments all day.

Gilded Balloon II kii Venue 36 People' s Palace, Fishmarket Close Tickets 226 2151 Box Office: 10.00-01.00 (InfoOld226 6550) and diverse Imagi n at i v e, intriguing, invigorating, international a programme which encapsulates the very essence of the Fringe. Soak in the atmosphere in the cafes, bars and clubs.

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00) £7.50 50) 29 page 29 • Aug Big and Daft Gilded Balloon(£6. page 6-30 18.

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0 0) • Aug Hollow Men Balloon 29 (£6.00) 6-30Number (not 11,Gilded 25)of 17.Monkeys 00 (18.00)pageGilded £7.00 • Aug Infinite page 29 16-30Lucy-The 15.45 (16.Show 45) £6.0Gilded 0 (£5.0Balloon 0) Balloon • Judith page 29 IOxford 1-30 21.3Revue 0 (22.30)Gilded £8.00 Balloon (£7.00) page 29 • Aug The 6-30 (not 17,is Spewing 23) 18.00 (19.Gilded 00) £7.50 (£6.50) 29 • Aug Pat McGroin 7-10 21.and30 Hiccups: (22.30) £6.An50 Improvised (£5.50)BalloonLovepageAffair • Aug Pick-Ups Boom Chicago page 17 6-30 (not 16)and23.30Film(00.presents 45) £8.00The (£7.0Ministry 0) of Biscuits • Aug Quirk:Theatre Gilded Balloon page 29 Aug 6-30Weird (not 24)Beards 16.00 (17.

45) £7.00 (£6.page 00) 29 • Three Aug 6-30 Gilded 22.45 (23.Balloon 45) £7.Gilded 50 (£6.29Balloon 50) • Tripod page Aug 6-30 19.15of(20.Scotch 15) £7.5Gilded 0 (£6.5Balloon 0) • Two Fingers 30 6-30 23.Down 15 (00.1the5) £7.00 (£6.from 00) Jesus page • Aug 2000 Years Drain: Christ to Jerry Springer Boom Chicago page 17 Aug &6-30Jill (not 30 (21.Balloon 45) £9.00page(£8.3000) • Viv Again16)10,220.4)Gilded Aug 6-30 (not 19.ly Woodcock 30 (20.30) £7.00 (£6.00) • Wedding Belles Sal Aug 7-30 (not 9,16,19,23) 12.00 (13.00)page£7.5043 (£5.00) Musicals/Opera • Aug Poisoning the Park 6-30 14.Pigeons 15 (15.30)in £7.00 (£6.00)Gilded Balloon page 66 Theatre • Gilded Bombo presents:The s Spatial Awareness No. I 88 Divine(01.David' Aug 6-30Balloon (not 16,page 23) midnight 00) £8.00 (£7.00) 134

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Gilded Balloon Theatre kii Venue 38 233 Cowgate(InfoTickets 226 2151 Box Office: 10.00-01.00 226 6550) Imaginative, intriguing, invigorating, international and diverse a programme which encapsulates the very essence of the Fringe. Soak in the atmosphere in the cafes, bars and clubs.

Children' s Shows • Aug Magic9-20Bob' Show(£4.0Gilded (nots Anti-Magic 13) 11.00 (12.Magic 00) £5.00 0) Balloon page 9 Comedy <£ Revue • Adam Hills My Own World(£4.Gilded Balloon page 27 Previews Aug19.4-6-8 (20.Little 45)(£6.£5.00 Aug 9-30 5 (20.19.4Show 5)45 £7.00 00)Balloon00) page 26 • The Arthur Dung Gilded Aug 6-30 (not 17,24) 16.30 (17.

30) £7.00 (£6.page 00) • Asteroid Haemorrhoid 6-30 (not 9,16,2Famine, 3) 18.15Gilded (19.30)Balloon £7.00Pestilence (£6.00)27 • AtAug Last!

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0 0) Aug 19.40and(20.Kerr 40) £6.50 Men9-29 page (£5.

23 000)0) Holyrood Tavern kis •• Aug 6-29Dyball 17.2Comedy 5 (18.25) Club £7.00 (£5.

Screamers Venue 84 Holyrood Road Tickets 557 4972 Aug 13,14,20,21,27,28 midnightScreamers (01.30) £7.00page(£5.4100) Boxfriendliest Office: 13.00-22.00 The venue on the Fringe. Comedy, theatre, music, cabaret plus super food and drink Dance/Physical • Aug Mozart Comedy 10-22b Preposteroso 13.45 (15.Thoman 00) £7.Nola 50page(£5.Rae4950)page 48 • The Late<£AugRevue Snatch hy Gibbon Productions page 24 • Aug numb6-29 Camille Previews 6,0 7(23.22.125)Fi0 lt£5.00 (23.

15)(£4.£3.00 (not 16, 2 3) 16.

1 5 (17.

5) £7.4950 (£5.50) Aug 8-22 22.

2 0 0) • Scratch 20:21 Performance 0page • The Leisure ign Communications page 35 Previews Aug 7-29 19.4Virus 0 (20.Show 40)Mal£5.00 (£4.00) Show page Aug 9-29Aug12.06-85 (13.12.105)5 £7.(13.0105)(£4.£5.00 50) (£3.00) • The Stand-Up The Stand-Up 43 Aug 6-29 (not 16) 21.Waters 00 (22.00)Green £5.00Man(£4.Productions 50) Music • Washed in Many page 31 • Aug Bare Barb15-19, Jungr page295822.10 (23.10) £7.00 (£5.00) Aug 6-15,23-29 18.10 (19.10) £5.00 (£4.00) Aug 13,10-12, 14,20,21,227,2-26, 28 22.10 (23.10) £8.50 (£6.00) Music • Aug Blond,16-21blue-eyed page 60 Musicals/Opera 18.IS (19.guy,15) 26£5.00Mark (£4.0Northfield 0) • Aurora/Western Macbeth 2000 AConnecticut Multi-mediaStateRock Musical Theatre Aug 6-22 (not 16) 22.15 (23.45) £7.50University (£5.50) page 65 • Aug ForniKate KneejerkTheatre page 93 7-22 16.40 (17.55) Seasonal £5.00 (£4.00) Theatre • Three page 107 • Aug Fantastical Voyage Gavin (£5.

Robertson Aug 6-29Tall14.Women 30 (16.20) £5.50 (£4.Productions 50) 17.15Company (18.35) £7.50 5page 0) 81 page 81 • Aug In the8-29 Line(not of16,17)Duty Company Theatre Food and No drink:steps.Licensed bar all day and night. Food 12.00-20.00.

7-29 (not 2 3) 18.

3 5 (19.

2 5) £5.50 (£4.

50) Disabled: • Aug Labels6-29 Company 15.00Rejects (15.Theatre 35)Revenge £5.50 page (£4.

5810) Company page 103 • Peasouper Theatre Howden Park Centre hi Outer • Aug 23-29 (not 22.20- The (23.35) £8.00 Orchard (£6.00) Version 2.0 Polarities (Part24)pageOne) Venue 197 Howden, 10.Livingston 634 fecund theatre 860,22,24,2Cherry Box Office:Mon-Thurs 00-19.00, FriTickets 10.programme 00-15.01506 00, Satof433adult/children' 10.30-16.00(lnfo 01506 432 496) Aug 8, 1 0, 1 2, 1 4, 1 6, 1 8, 2 6, 2 8 19.

1 5 (20.

30) £7.00 00) Arts and Conference Centre.Year-round s theatre Polarities theatre page(£5. performances, children/adult art, music, dance classes, regular music performances, folk club. • Aug 9,Killed 11,13,(Part 1A5,1Few 7,Two) 19,People...

21,Ubu 23,25,Roi 27,Martin 29fecund 19.1Sutherland 5 (20.

30) £7.00 (£5.86 0page 0) 95 • So, I Presents Musicals/Opera Aug 6-29 20.Peta50 Li(21.ly 55)page£7.5095 (£5.50) • Summer Operatic and Music Festival • Topless Livingston Society / Opera(£3.Minora Aug 6-29 (00.25) £7.00 00) Aug 27,28 Music 19.30 (22.

00) £5.00 00) (Amsterdam) page 67 • The Visit23.11.to2455Picasso Great(£5.

Aug 6-29 (13.Brouhaha 10) £6.00 (£5.Liv0es0)78Theatre page 89 Food and drink: Tuck shop at children' s events, licensed bar i n evenings.

• Well, Farewell page Disabled: Full wheelchair access throughout, disabled toilets and parking bays.

Previews (14.40)(£6.£6.00 00) Aug 8-29Aug13.36-70 Rejects (14.13.40)30 Revenge £7.00 00) (£5.Company Whoredom Theatre page 103 A9 • Aug Preview Aug 8 15.

3 5 (16.

5 5) £5.00 Inverleith Church Hall 9-29 (notTues) 15.35 (16.55) £8.00 (£6.00) Venue 120 Ferry Road (opp Granton Road) Box Office: 45 minutes prior to performance Food and drink: CafeStr.andAlsolicensed bar until 01.00.

Disabled: Musicals/Opera Aud: 32yd toEnt:lift1+7+1 (30") or 7+9+3.ramp at rear via Quarry Lane.WC (fully adapted).

• Aug Little6-14Shop(notof8)Horrors Forth Children' s Theatre page 66 19.30 (21.45) £5.50 (£4.50) Aug Lauriston Halls k?

Aug 71414.14.3030(16.(16.45)45)£4.50 £5.50 (£4.50) Venue 27 Lauriston Street Tickets 226 5138(venue) (Info 665 9742) Box Office: 10.00-19.00 (Fringe) 19.00-22.00 Food and drink: Refreshments at time of performance.

Until the 1970' s , Lauriston Halls of the Sacred Heart Church was one of the vital centres Disabled: Ent: 70yd 2 Str.Aud: 6yd level. WC 24" (very narrow). Guide dogs admitted. Help fringe theatre, housing amongst many others the great Tyrone Guthrie.This year sees a of available. resurgence of its festival heritage.

James Gillespie's High School ns Theatre • Aug The Three Venue 93 Lauderdale Street 17-29 (notSisters 23) 19.Theatre 30 (22.1Alba 5) £7./ 0MPR 0 (£5.0page 0) 111 Box Office: 09.00-20.00 447 1900)for Union Theatre: 01501 741 584 Tickets for Stage 84:0385(Info2440131 984 Tickets Food and drink: Bar, soft drinks (19.

0 0-23.

0 0) Disabled: Level access to the hall.Access to toilets includes slopes.

Musicals/Opera • Aug My Fair Lady Stage 84£7.50page(£5.6900) 10-14 19.

1 5 (21.

4 5) The Magdalen Chapel kii Aug 14 14.15 (16.45) Venue 185Info 41667Cowgate Info 667 4645 Theatre Phones: 4645 • Aug Comedy 24-28of19.Errors 15 (21.45)Union £5.00Theatre (£4.00) page 115 Music No Strings Society page 51 Food and drink: Tea and coffee at performance.HR.AdaptedWC separate building. •• Aug 17-20Measure (notAttached 19) 20.The00 The (21.4Clarsach 5) £6.(Scottish 00 (Scottish (£5.0Harp) 0) Harp) Disabled: Ent: ramped IOOyds+I.Atime ud:4yd,of 5Str+5Str AAugScots Clarsach Society page 51 19,21 20.00 (21.45) £6.00 (£5.00) Komedia @ Southside mi2 Guide Disabled: 4yds Flathelp2 available Str but ramp available.completely Aud: 6yds Flat-WC: adapted. dogsEncwelcome, on premises, accessibleFulforly wheelchairs.

Venue 82 117 Nicolson Street Tickets 667 2212 Box Office: 10.00-01.00 Brighton' s Komedia theatre with its unrivalled reputation for the best i n theatre, comedy The Mambo Club is and 75 3,WestTollcross Info0469/229 229 0469/229 3047 Cafemusic open brings all day.it's unique style to one of the Fringe's most established venues. Bar and Venue Box Office: 22.00-03.00 (Info 229 3047) Children' Music • Aug Bodgers &Shows Badger' Mad and Badger page 8 0 (11.3s0)Little £6.00Mash (£4.030)KrazyBodger • The Mambo Club The Mambo2-4Club • Aug Krazy6-15 Kat'10.10.s3Three Pigs Kat Theatre Company page 9 Aug 5-7,12-14,19-21,26-28,Sept 22.00 page (04.0580) £5.00 (£4.00) 16-29 3 0 (11.

1 5) £3.

5 0 • The Man Who Lost His Nose Pekko' s Puppets page 11 Food and drink: Licensed bar.

Aug 19-29 10.45 (11.40) £4.00 (£3.00) Disabled: Unsuitable for wheelchair userss. Guide dogs admitted. Help available. 137

The Meadows Theatre Big Top Ni2 Venue 189 09.30-20.30 The Meadows, Melville Drive Tickets 667 0202 Box Office: Spectacular 000 seatstunning Big Top.alternative Mix of chair individual seats. A modern Big Top providing the1,most venueandattiered the Festival.

DancelPhysical • African Experience page(£6.00-£ 44 10.00) 9-28Eloize (not Suns) 19.0African 0 (20.40)Experience £8.00-£l2.50 • Aug Cirque -2Excentricus Cirque Eloize page£8.00-£l2.50 45 (£6.00-£ 10.00) Aug 12, 1 4, 1 5, 1 9, 1, 2 2, 2 6, 2 8, 2 9 15.

0 0 (16.

4 5) from Aug 9,10,12-14,16,17,19-21,23,24,26-28 21.15 (22.45) Food and Good drink:access, Licenseddisabled bar andWC.snack Disabled: AII onbar.one flat level.

Merchiston Castle School Theatre pi Outer Venue 108 2940403 Colinton 807 Road Tickets 0403 167 807 Phones:Tickets Merchiston Castle School167Theatre is situated in the school's beautiful grounds which provide easy free car-parking near theatre.The Road's No. 10 bus route. Opposite theBedford Barracks.venue can be easily seen along Colinton Theatre • Wake Up, Jimmy15) 19.The00 Aqueous Summer Company page 74 Aug Aug 14-18 18 15.3(not 0 (17.00) (20.30) £3.00 (£1.00) Murrayfield Parish Church Hall hi Outer Venue 104 Ormidale Terrace15), 19.00-19.30 (558 8028) Box ReachOffice: venue Aug by bus11-21 - LRT(not - 2,26,31,36 63. SMT -16,284,275. Midland Bluebird - 36.

Theatre • Aug Billy11-21 Liar (notThe15)Makars 19.30&(22.DMDC 00) £6.00page(£5.9500) Food and drink: Tea and coffee at Disabled: Ent: 3yd HR.Aud: 3yd WC.time of performance only.

The Netherbow Theatre jn Venue 30 4310.00-22.00 High Street(InfoTickets 556 9579 Box Netherbow Office: 556of2647) The i s the halfway point Edinburgh' s Royal Mi l e & home of the Scottish Storytelling Centre. Family shows (daytime)courtyard. combined with traditional arts & challenging contemporary with outdoor No wheelchairtheatre. access toCafeNetherbow Gallery.

Children' s Shows • Aug Big Aggie' Pearls page00)9 5-30 (nots- The 8,15,Mystery 22)Kenspeckle 14.00of(14.the5Puppets 0)Monster £4.00 (£3.

• Wee Labyrinth in the Maze Stories Theatre For Children page 11 Aug 5-30 (notthe8,Fox 15,22)and15.the30 (16.Mouse 30) £4.00Ian Turbitt' (£3.00)s Puppet Theatre page 9 • The Lion, 5-30 (notPiglet 8,15,meet 22) 11.the00 (11.

50) £4.00Again (£3.00) • Aug Pooh Heffalump Richard5-30andMedrington’s 11 (£3.50) Aug (not 8,15,22)Puppets 12.30 (13.page20) £4.50 Theatre • Aug Klimt9,11,The13,1Netherbow Theatre 18,20,23,2The 5,27Netherbow 20.00page(21.1965)Theatre £7.50 (£6.00) • The Laird(not of6,Samoa Aug 11-30 8, 1 5, 2 2) 18.

0 0 (19.Theatre 00) £6.00page(£4.9600)page 97 • On Business The Netherbow Aug 10,Robert 12,14,1Burns 7,19,21,Tour 24,26,2The8 20.00 (21.15) Theatre £7.50 (£6.page 00) • The Netherbow Aug 2-30with (not 8,Robert 15,22) Burns 14.30 (15.Storyteller 30) £6.00 (£4.

00) page 10997 • Supper Scotland Aug 2-30 (not 8,15,22) 18.30 (20.20) £12.50 Food and drink:10ydCafe8+1open 10.0A0ud:to 5yd 22.00I StrWC for coffee,(+3snacks, Disabled: HR. 25"). meals etc.

Enclosed lifEnc t and stair lift forStr wheelchair access to theatre.

Nicolson Square Methodist Church Venue Phones:6 Info:25 Nicholson 667 1465 / Square 336 5353 Music • Aug Spanish Guitar Works Segovia 17-19 13.00 (13.55) £5.00 (£4.0Guitar 0) Trio page 62 Food and drink: Cafe open 08.

3 0-15.

3 0 Disabled: Accessible venue, please phone (Mon-Fri). in advance.

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Off the Back of a Truck Comedy Venue Venue 8 InfoJunction of126Grassmarket King's Stables Road KI0 Phones: 177 Venue iand Off the theatre Back of07803 aTruck Comedy s Parked unique ipermanently n that it is a ifuln the ly equipped 40 seater mobile set i n the back of a truck.

Grassmarket area, it hosts four comedy shows daily.

Children' s ShowsPancake Downe Right Bonkers page 8 • The Country Aug 23-30 17.00 (17.45) £6.00 (£5.00) All shows listed below can be found under Comedy Cafe Off the Back of aTruck: Comedy <& Revue • Andrew Murrell page 21 Previews 7 219.in2)45Dreadlocks 5) £4.45)0&£6.00 0 Footlights 9-30Aug (not&6,15,Nettleton-Two 19.(20.45 4(20. (£5.

00)of One page 21 • Aug Chambers for the Price Previews Aug 518.(19.15 1(19.5) £4.00 9-30Kitson (not6,15,7and218.2)1Lee 15) £6.00are(£5.the00) Monkey Touchers page 21 • Aug Daniel Previews Aug 6, 7 21.

1 5 (22.15Canterbury 1(22.5) £4.00 Aug 9-30 (not 15, 2 2) 21.

1 5) £6.00 (£5.00) • Aug Mallory 9-30 and (not Mr15,2Flute 2) 22.45 (23.page45)21£6.00 (£5.00) Old St. Paul’s Church <£ Hall jis Venue 45 Jeffrey Street(InfoTickets 556 0476 Box Office: 10.00-23.00 556line0476) Pamment & Bal f e present another up of critically acclaimed Fringe theatre and five star shows fromartaround is a musttheforfestival all socialites projecting based thefilmplanet.The and music cafe throughout period.with Club Polski Children’s ShowsBlunderbusTheatre Co paged • The Firebird Aug 7-28 Aug 8,15,22(not16.Suns) 35 (17.10.35)35 (11.35) £5.00 (£4.00) Comedy & Revue • Scotland 2010: An Independent Country!

Independent Productions page 34 Aug 6,7 22.(not00Country (23. £4.50(23.(£3.00)50)£5.50 Aug 9-28 Suns)00)22.00 (£4.50) DancelPhysical • Striptease Mon-amour Talking Bodies Aug 9-14,23-28 23.00 (midnight) £4.50 (£3.0page 0) 49 Music • Brandenburg No. Old St Paul's Music 99 page 60 18 19.Masses 45 (21.Concerto 45)Old£6.00 (£4.s020)Music • Aug Festival St5)Paul' 99 page 60 Aug 15, 2 2, 2 9 10.

3 0 (12.

1 Free • Aug Hildegard and05 the Queen of(£4.Heaven Old St Paul's Music 99 page 60 20, 2 1 14.

(15.

0 0) £6.

0 0 0 0) 20,King' 21 s16.Musick 05 (17.00)Old St Paul's Music 99 page 60 • Aug The 30 19.45Concert (21.45) £6.00Old(£4.St 0Paul' 0) • Aug Orchestral 99 page 60 Aug 25 19.Byrd 45 (21.- Masses 45) £6.00&(£4.Motets 00) s Music • William Old St Paul's Music 99 page 60 Aug 27-29 14.

0 5 (15.

0 0) £6.00 (£4.

0 0) Aug 27-29 22.05 (23.00) Theatre • The Absence of War16.00Sweet Naive(£4.page Aug 8-29 (notExitsSuns) (18.00)andCompany £5.00 50)page109103 • Available QMW Theatre Aug 23-28 14.

4 5 (15.

4 5) £5.50 (£3.

5 0) • The Constant Couple 100% Proof(£2.Theatre Company page 98 Previews Aug 45)(£3.£2.50 Aug 9-28 20.of 1the6,5 7(21.20.House 415)5 (21. £4.50 50) 00) • The Fall of Usher Shattered Windscreen 16-21 (23.5Company 5)Theatre £5.00 Company (£3.page00) 103 page 107 • Aug Fat 23-28 QMW23.00 Theatre Aug 13.

3 0 (14.

3 0) £5.50 (£3.

50) • Jargoons The Gus45)Theatre 8-28 18.Sex 15 (19. £5.00 Company (£3.50) pageThree89 Tables For One page 113 • Aug Marriage, and Second Thoughts 10,12,14,17,1Dreams 9,21 14.30Night (15.30) £5.00 Theatre (£4.00) • AAug Midsummer 23-28Verge 12.00 (13.

15) £5.Productions 50 (£3.5QMW 0) page 82 Company page 103 • Aug On The Dirigible Preview 00) £3.00 7-14Aug12.60012.and (14.0000)a(14.Monkey £5.00 (£4.0Wide 0) page 117 • Aug Six Mourners Aug 9-14 00.

1 5 (01.

1 5) £4.00 (£2.

50) For One • Aug Strange Bedfellows Three Tables 9,11,Night 13,16,18,Schhh!!!

20 14.30Theatre (15.30)Company £5.00 (£4.0page 0)page106113 • Aug Twelfth 16-21 12.

1 5 (13.

4 5) £4.50 (£2.

5 0) • Aug Ubu 16-28 Groupmidnight 51 page (01.4895) £6.50 (£4.00) Food and drink: Licensed cafe 09.00-23.00.

StrDisabled: HR WCHall:A (+ 7 M).few steps up from street level. Church: Enc 3yd Flat. Aud: 50yd 7+7+19 Outside the Beehive Inn kio Venue 178 Grassmarket TicketsPub226Tour6665begins outside the Beehive Inn, a very The McEwans 80/Edinburgh Literary historic in sthegreatGrassmarket of Edinburgh' is associated many oftavern Scotland' writers, including Roberts OldTown.This Burns and R.L. pub Stevenson, with with photographs on show.

Theatre • The McEwans80/-80/-Edinburgh Edinburgh LiteraryTourPub Tour The McEwans Aug 2-Sept 44 20.18.3000 (20.

030)0) £6.Literary 00 (£5.0Pub 0) page 84 Aug 2-Sept (22.

Food and drink: Available on route.

Pleasance lm Venue 33 60The Pleasance Tickets 556 6550 Box Office: 11.00-24.00 (Info 556 1513) Fifteen of Pleasance and, Theanother great varied programme time courtyard in the est ofandyears all possible Ten andperforming spaces round- party a buzzing -'bfood drink all worlds' day. Plenty ofObserver.

Fringe spirit!

Comedy <£Bloom: RevueBeyond A Joke Adam Bloom page 15 • Adam Aug 10-12, 2-26 19.19.0000 (20.

(20.000)0) £8.50 £7.50 (£7. (£6.550)0) 13,14,210,5-19, 2Afflicktion 1,227-30 • Aug Afflicktion page25) £4.00 13 Previews Aug 4-6 14.

2 5 (15.

Aug 7-9, 26 214.5)25£6.00 (15.2(£5.

5) £5.00 0) 13,114,1,210,the2,211,5-19, 2Pub 7-3022,Landlord: 14.23,2255,(15.

5ofWhite 0) (£4.5Wine • AlAug Murray And a Glass for thepageLady37 AlPreviews Murray the Pub Landlord:And a Glass ofWhite Wine for the Lady Aug 4-615-19,21.222,5 2(22.

40)26£4.00 Aug 7-9, 1 1, 1 2, 3, 2 5, 21.

2 5 (22.

4 0) £8.00 (£7.

0 0) Aug 27-30 13,14,221.0,2215 21.(22.2540)(22.£9.40)00 £8.50 (£7.50) (£8.00)Vincent • Aug Andre Vincent is22.00 Cheeky Andre page 43 Previews Aug 4, 5 (23.

0 0) £4.00 Aug 6-12,15,17-19,22-26 22.000(23.

0 (23.00)00)£8.50 £7.50(£7.(£6.50)50) Aug 13, 1 4, 2 0, 2 1, 2 7-30 22.

• Andy Robinson page 41 Previews Aug 4,5 21.Andy 45 (22.Robinson Aug 6-9,11,12,15-19,22-26 21.545)(22.45£3.4(22.5)004£9.00 5) £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 13, 1 4, 2 0, 2 1, 2 7-30 21.

4 • Arj Barker Arj5 20.Barker page 13 (£8.00) Previews Aug 4, 5 5 (21.

5 5) £3.00 Aug 6-9,11,12,15-19,22-26 5£9.00 5) £8.00 13,n'A1rn'4,2s0,2BigTop 1,27-30 20.Pleasance 520.5 (21.55 5(21.5)Comedy (£8.page0(£7.0) 3900) • Aug Ben'4-30 Aug (not 9, 2 3) 23.

0 0 (23.

5 5) £5.

0 0 • Aug Boothby Booth Graffoe50)page 31 14,15-19, 20,Graffoe 2212,20.00 00) by£8.50 Aug 23,2(21.5,2(21.060)20.00 (21.(£8.0(£7.

0)00)£8.00 (£7.00) Aug 27-30 20.00 £9.00 • Aug Brian16-30 Appleton' s History of Rock' oll Brian Appleton page 13 (not 23)Gentleman, 16.30 (17.20)Scholar, £6.00n'RAcrobat • Chris Addison: Chris Addison: Gentleman, Scholar,£4.00Acrobat page 13 Previews 19.232,0 2(20.

Aug 7-9, 14,Aug 1,210,2,24-6115-19, 3,235,30)0)26£8.50 19.30 (20.30) £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 13, 1 19.

3 0 (20.

27-30 19.30 (20.

30)Murphy £9.00 (£8.page00)(£7.3750) • Aug Colin Murphy Colin Aug 4-8,10-12,15-19,22,24-26 30) £7.50 (£6.50) 13,Comedy 14,20,21,Zone 27-30 19.The30 Comedy (20.19.330)0 (20. £8.50 • Aug The Zone (£7.page50) 23 Previews Aug 4-6 23.

0 5 (00.

4 5) £4.00 Aug 7-9, 23,245,5)26£8.50 23.05(£7.(00.50)45) £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 13,114,1,223.10,2,201155-19, 23.(00.02542,5)(00.

27-30 £9.00 (£8.0Biscuit 0) • Aug Come On! Productions ' T hat Pleasance Comedy page 3915) £3.50 Stole my Husband!'

Previews Aug 4, 5 17.

1 5 (18.

Aug 6-8,10-12,15-19,22,24-26 (18. £6.0000) (£5.00) 13,Daily 14,2Telegraph 0,21,27-30 17.Open 15 (18.17.Mic115)5Award £7.0015)(£6.

• Aug The Daily Grand Final page 199938 The Telegraph Open Mi c Award Grand Final 1999 Aug 00 (16.Return 00) £5.00From The Wildebeest • Aug Dan2416and14.15.Nick BBC Radio 4 page 14 (16.000)0) Free 16Gorman' 19.0000 (20.

• Aug Dave s Better World Dave Gorman' s Better World page 31 Previews 19.212,5 2(20.

Aug 7-9, 14,Aug 1,210,2,24-6115-19, 3,215,15)5)26£8.£4.00 19.5015(£7.(20.50)15) £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 13, 1 19.

1 5 (20.

19.-1I'5m(20.in15)the£9.00 (£8.Mother 00) Dave Johns page 34 • Aug Dave27-30 Johns Preview Aug15,17-19,22-26 4,5 20.45 (21.20.Attic 45)45£4.00 Aug 6-12, (21. £7.50(£7.(£6.50)50) 13,14,Holland 20,21,27-30Dominic 20.45 (21.Holland 45)45)£8.50 • Aug Dominic page 33 Preview Aug 5 20.00 (21.

0 0) £3.00 Aug 6-8,10-12,15-19,22-26 20.00 (21.

0 0) £8.00 13,14,20,Fringes 21,27-30 20.BBC00Radio (21.00)4 £9.00 (£8.

0(£7.

0) 00) • Aug Edinburgh page 14 12,17,Eel24 12.Electric 00 (13.Eel00) Free • Aug Electric page17.0230 (18.00) £7.50 (£6.50) Aug 4-8,10-12,15-19,22,24-26 Aug 13, 1 4, 2 0, 2 1, 2 7-30 17.00 (18. £8.50 Skinner' (£7.50) s Greatest Hits page 41 • Aug Frank6-13Skinner' s Greatest Hits00) Frank 20.00 (21.BBC 00) £5.00 • Aug Fringe16-20Fictions Radio 4 page 14 I 1.0BBC 0 (I Radio 1.30) Free • Aug Front10 Row 19.15.0000 (20.

000)0) Free4 page 14 Aug 27 (16.

• The Lecture Radio 4 page 14 23Hannibal 16.and00 (17.

00) Free BBCHudson • Aug Hudson Pepperdine and Pepperdine page 33 Aug 4-8,10-12,15-19,22,24-26 18.

13,1Sunshine 4,20,21,27-30Pleasance 18.40 (19.Comedy 440)0 (19. £8.5040)page (£7.£7.505390) (£6.50) • Aug Instant Aug 22-2628 12.17.3005 (13.

(18.00)5) £7.00 £6.50 (£6. (£5.00) Aug Aug 27,27,Byrne 28 17.05Jason (18.30Byrne 5) £7.00page (£6.00170)0) • Jason Aug (21.

Aug 4-8,10-12,15-19,22,24-26 13,Freeman: 14,20,21,27-30 35 (21.20.Up,335)5Dirty £8.5035)Side (£7.£7.505Down 0) (£6.50) • Jason ShinySide20.Side Jason Freeman: Shiny Up, Dirty Side Down page 25 Previews 20.232,0 2(21. £4.00 Aug 7-9, 14,Aug 1,210,2,24-6115-19, 3,235,30)0)26£8.50 20.30(£7.(21.50)30) £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 13, 1 20.

3 0 (21.

Aug Reed: 27-30 20.8.5mm 30 (21.3Jon0) £9.Reed00 (£8.page00)41 • Jon Aug Aug 4-8,10-12,15-19,22,24-26 13,14,20,21,27-30 20.30 (21.20.3030) (21. £8.5300)(£7.£7.5050) (£6.50)

Venues • Julian BarrattandandNoelNoelFielding Fielding in Arctic Boosh JulPreviews ian Barratt page 13 Aug 4-615-19,18.202,0 2(19.

00)26i£4.n18.Arctic 0000 (19.Boosh Aug 7-9, 1 1, 1 2, 3, 2 5, 00) £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 13, 1 4, 2 0, 2 1 18.

0 0 (19.

0 0) £8.

5 0 (£7.

5 0) Aug 27-30 18.00 (19.

00) £9.00 (£8.00) • Just Aug 99a 20.19.Minute 050 (21.

(19.04BBC 5) FreeRadio 4 page 14 Aug 1 0) • Aug Kissing the22,Goldfish 27-30 4-26 23.23.1155Pleasance (00.115)5) £8.00 £7.Comedy 00 (£6. (£5.550)0)page 39 Aug 15-19, 14,League 20,21,2Against (00.

• The Tedium The League Against Tedium page 34 Previews (22.22,520)3,2£4.00 Aug 7-9, 14,4-6 1,210,2,221.50 115-19, 5,0)26£8.50 21.50(£7.(22.50)50) £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 13, 1 21.

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5 50 (22.50) Mack' £9.00s (£8.

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• Aug Live Bait Dallas And Packer 23 Previews 4-615-19,17.242,5 2(18.4-2645)17.£3.50 Aug 7,13,8,114,Aug 0-12, 45)5 (18.£7.0045) (£6.£6.0000)(£5.00) Aug 2 0, 2 1, 2 7-30 17.

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4 5) £8.

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0) 00) • Aug Norman Aug 6-15 20.

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3 0) £8.50 (£7.

5 0) • Off the Kerb Roadshow page 38 Previews Aug 4,Roadshow 5 22.00 (23.22.00)Off00£3.the(23.00Kerb Aug 6-8,10-12,15-19,22-26 00) £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 13, 1 4, 2 0, 2 1, 2 7-30 22.00 (23.

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Aug 6-8,10-12,15-19,22,24-26 35)(£8.£8.000)0 (£7.00) 13,14,20,and21,2Katz 7-30 22.- Unf***ed 35 (23.22.335)5 (23. £9.00 • Aug Parkinson Pleasance Comedy page 39 Aug 16-19, 2 2, 2 4-26 13.

0 0 (14.

0 0) £6.00 20,Tonkinson 21,27-30 13.Paul00 (14.

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0) 00) • Aug Phil Nichol Previews Aug 4, 5 20.

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4 5) £3.00 Aug 6-8,10-12,15-19,22-26 00) 13,1Hersch 4,20,21,2Conducts 7-30 20.4520.All(21.45Classical 4(21.

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0) Explained:The • Aug Rainer Orchestra!

Rainer Hersch page 33 Previews Aug 5,6 17.00 (18.017.0) 0£6.00 Aug 7-10,12,13,16-20,24-26 0 (18.

0 0) £8.

5 0 (£7.

5 0) 14,15,2aka1,22,Otis 27-30Lee17.0Crenshaw 0 (18.00) £9.50 (£8.50) • Aug Rich Rich HalHalll Aug aka Otis Lee15Crenshaw Previews 4, 5 22.

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15)22.£3.150page 0(23.1335) £8.00 (£7.00) Aug 6-9, 1 1, 1 2, 1 5, 1 7-19, 2 2-26 13,14,20,21,27-30 22.Pleasance 15 (23.15) £9.00 (£8.

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05)05page £4.00 Aug 6-9, 1 1, 1 2, 9 17.

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30)2'93,9£4.25,0page 06 14.10200 (15.30) £7.00 (£6.00) Aug 6-9, 1 1, 1 2, 6, 1 9, 2 2, 2 Aug American 13,14,20,21,2Drama 7-30 14.Group 00 (15.3-0)Brave £8.00 (£7.00) • The Pleasance Festival OfTheatre '99 page 102New World Preview Aug 8 12.

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1 0) £5.00 Aug 7-9, 14,1,210,2,211,5,217-30 6,18,116.9,0202,(17.

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0 5 (14.

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14.1300)(15.£6.00 30) £5.00 Aug 20, 2 1, 2 Fat Hamlet Pleasance0Festival OfTheatre' 99 page 101 Aug 5-8, 0) £6.00 Aug 13,1140-1213.Theatre 0013.(14.00 0(14.0)Company £6.50 (£5.-5(£5.

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3 0) £8.50 Aug 27-30 16.00 (17.30) £9.00 (£8.00) OfTheatre'99 page 102 • Jade - Like Preview Aug Candyfloss 4 14.00 (15.20)Pleasance £5.0014.0Festival Aug 5-8,10-12,15,17-19,22,24-26 0 (15.(£6.

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3 0 (12.

0 0) £3.00 Aug 20,16-19, 2,23,210.5,2360 (12.

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1 00) 13,from 14,20,2Underground 1,27-30 18.15 (19.Double 15) £8.00Edge5)(£7.£7.00 00) (£6.page • Aug Notes Drama 83 Previews Aug 4, 5 23.

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15)22,£5.00 Aug 6-9, 1 1, 1 2, 5, 1 6, 1 8, 1 9, 2 3, 2 5, 2 6 23.10 13,14,20,21,- 2The 7-30Exhibitionists 23.10 (00.15) £7.50 (£6.(00.00)15) £6.50 (£5.00) • Aug Ridiculusmus Pleasance Festival OfTheatre '99 page 102 Preview Aug 5 10.45 (11.45)10.£0.50 Aug 6-8,10-12,15-19,22-26 45 4(11.

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1 5) £3.50 Aug 7-9,11,12,15-19,22-26 5) £6.(£6.00 0(£5.0) 00) 13,14,20,21,Company 27-30 15.1Scotland 515.(16.15 1(16.5) 1£7.00 • Aug 7:84Theatre - Caledonia Pleasance Festival OfTheatre ' 9 9 page 101 Dreaming Preview Aug,11,152,17.15,3106,(19.18,105)9,2£5.00 Aug 6, 7 , 9 2, 2 3, 2 5, 2 6 17.

30 (19.00)05) £8.00 (£5.00) 13,14,20,2s1,2Bottom 7-29 17.30Pleasance (19.05) £9.00 • Aug Shakespeare' Festival(£6.OfTheatre '99 page 102 Preview Aug 6 14.

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• Aug Exile16-21No21.00 Limits(22.Theatre Company page 48 00) £4.50 page (£2.50) • Aug Rattle9-14 Moving Randolph Studio hs 18.30 (20.in the00) Spirit £5.00 (£3.50)48 Venue 55 Inst. d'Ecosse, 13 Randolph Cres. Tickets 225 5366 Musicals/Opera Box Office: OpensFran^ais 11.00 (Info 226 2371 or 225 5366) • Oh What a Lovely War Newbury Youth Theatre page 68 Aug 16-21 18.30 (19.45) £5.00 (£4.00) Alunless l showsotherwise listed below statedcan be found under Frantic Redhead Productions Talks <£ Events Comedy <£ Revue • Chhi Healing Sounds Mantra Chanting Workshop • Aug Las Vegas 7-30 (notatpageLarge 16,2523,24) 12.page25 25(13.30) £5.00 (£4.00) Aug Yoga 16,18,and 20,21Meditation 09.15 (11.Centre 00) £4.00page(£3.7000) • WeHo Aug 8-30 (not 16,23,24) 23.20 (00.20) £6.00 (£5.00) Theatre • About Face16.30Lost(17.Cause page(£2.9500) Dance/Physical Aug 16-21 3 0) £4.00 • Once Upon a 47 00) £5.00 (£3.00) • Aug And23-28 Again19.The Aug 7-30 (not 17,Time 23,24) 13.page45 (15.

00 (19.Onion 5- 0)Return £5.Shed50 of(£4.pagethe00)98Sometime Poet • Big Issue Graham Music Homeless • AAugFiddle, A18.Harp, A35)Tune£6.00From Aug 9-14 16.and24-28 30Hungry (17.10.330)0 Productions £5.0030)(£3.00)page 91 14-22 250 (19. (£5.0the 0) Heart page 55 17-20, (11.

Aug 15-21 19.

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0 5) • Aug Black Comedy Edward’s Theatre Company page 85 Aug (22.255)5) 9-14 30 (22.Performance 15) £5.00 (£4.Exchange 00) Aug 1415 21.15.Up4105and(16.

• Aug Fool23-28 and 20.Lear • Jazzed Winding Down Aug 21.00Tagus (22.00)Theatre £5.50 (£4.page00)109 page 101 Aug 25-29 21.00 (22.50) £6.University 00 (£5.00) page 55 • The Mariner • Aug Rocky5-14Winslow 9-21 -(not 15) Georgian 12.30 (13.Productions 30) £5.00 (£3.page 50) 87 19.55 (21.&0the 5) £6.00 (£5.00) of Nevada, Las Vegas Jazz Quintet page 55 • Aug My Son Will!

23-28and16.Juliet:The 00 (17.50) £5.00 (£4.s 0Story 0) • Aug Romeo Aug 9-28 (not Suns) 14.30Nurse' (15.30) £5.00 (£3.Rowan 00) Studio page 105 Aug 7,25,27 10,11,16.13,0015,(17.22,120)8 11.00 (12.10) £4.00 (£3.00) Aug Visual Arts Angloklaxons page • Towards a Sacred Common Wealth Quaker Festival Committee page 121 Aug 10-29 0 (18.Mad 10) 87£6.00 (£5.00)page 87 Aug 9-28 (not Suns) 12.

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0 0) Free Last 10-14 Lists 16.17.Of305My Mother(£5.

Aug 9-28 (not Suns) Stories & poetry I 1.00 (12.00) Free Aug (17.

5 5)5) £6.50 00) Aug 15-20 17.

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Aug 22-30 (not page 24) 19.8745 (21.05) Disabled: access from and Upper Old Souls Ground floorWC (adapted).

Aug 8-18Tense 14.30 (15.15) £5.00 (£4.page00) 87 Present 8,26,9,3102,116.4,0106,Imperfect 21,2190)11.00 (12.10) £4.00 (£3.00) The Queen's Hall nis Aug Aug (17.

Riffs6,and Credos Venue 72 Clerk Street Tickets 668 2019/cc 667 7776 Aug 8 , 1 0, 1 2, 1 4, 17,the19,Ashes 2page 1,25,8727,29page 21.25 (22.50) £7.00 (£5.00) Box Office: 10.00concert - 15 mins after startas ofeverlastthisperf.

Mon -over Sun70(Info 668including 3456) Search7-14,Through Scotland' s liveliest hal l i s as busy year with events, Aug 2 1-30 18.

2 5 (19.

345)5) £6.00 (£4.8700) theFestival, International Festival morning concerts and Jazz Festival, featuring the return of Flux Aug 15, 1 6, 1 9, 2 0 16.

3 5 (17. comedy, folk and lots more!

Slipping Him 15,The23,Tongue Aug 7-30Watchers (not 24)page15.1875 (16.page15) 87£5.00 (£4.00) Comedy <£ Revue- Still Live On Earth Craig Charles page 19 Whale • Aug Craig24,Charles Aug 7, 9 , 1 1, 1 3, 1 5, 1 8, 2 0,22,26,28,30 21.25 (22.page50) 87£7.00 (£5.00) 25 22.3-0Queen' (23.30) s£12.00 (£10.00) Omid Djalili page 23 Who • Aug Omid23 Djalili Hall(£8.Special Aug 8-21Told15.U30Black (16.45)Wuz£5.50Beautiful?! (£5.00) 22.

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0 0 0 0) • Aug Rabbi Lionel Rabbi Lionel page 39 Visual Arts Sojourn Frantic Redhead Productions page 119 19.3for0 (21.Blue 30) Speech £10.00 (£8.Off00)Blue • AAugScottish • Aug Stand1917 Up20.00 Free the Fence Fund page 38 10.00 (23.00)Frantic Free (23.00) £12.00 (£8.00) • Aug Loving8-30 8-30Las14.Vegas 00 (23.00) Free Redhead Productions page 119 Food and Ent: drink:3ydCafe all day.50yd 27 Str HR WC (F +3 25” M +7 25").

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Venues Reality X Talks Events Showcase Strange Company page 7 / • Aug The<£9-Sept Machinima 4 (not Suns) 16.00 (17.00) Free Rocket Venue @ South Bridge Resource Ctr Venue 123 Infirmary Street Tickets 558 9991 KI3 Box Office: 09.15 year, (weeks I &Venue 2) & 123, 10.15one(week 3) - 15 smins after thevenues, last show.

Now inpacked our fourth Rocket of Edinburgh' moststage central returns with a programme of large-scale productions on the main and intimate performances in the studio. In between shows visit our cafe/bar.

Children' s Showsof Dreams Bilton Action Theatre Group page 8 • The Carnival 23-27 15.00 (15.

50) £3.00 00) @ San Francisco page 8 • Aug Dolphin Tales California Travel(£2.Troupe • Now That's What I Call.. Fox Youth Theatre page 9 5) San Francisco page 8 Comedy <£ Revue • Aug Anything Happen California Troupe @ San Francisco page 19 9-21 (notCan15)California 11.30 (13. £5.00Travel (£4.

• Aug Conception Travel050)0)Troupe @ 50San0)0) Francisco page 19 9-21 (not IS) 13.

1 0 (13. £3.50 (£3. r • The Ultimate Aug 26-30 (not 28)Kosher 16.45Comedy (17.45) £8.Experience 0C " The Banana Rebel Troupe page 13 Dance/Physical • Aug Handle with Care The Rubber Band page 48 Aug 8-14 15-21 14.16.0050(14.(17.45)35)£5.00 (£3.50) Music • Aug Kenny23-30 Young the45)Eggplants 22.4&5 (23. £6.00 0Kenny 0) Young & The Eggplants page 58 • Aug Malediction Ragged(£4.

16-21 18.40Bare(19.and 45) £6!ob (£5.Theatre 00) page 50 Musicals/Opera • Aug Dangerous Banana(£5.Theatre 9-21 (notGames 15) 20.15Absolute (22.15) £6.00 00) Company page 65 Abigail' s Party0 (19.Rocket Aug 23-28 1Child 0) £5.Venues 00RocketVenues (£3.0page 0) 104 page 104 Adult Child,18.12.02Dead Aug 23-28 0 (13.

3 0) £5.00 (£3.

0 0) Athena Aug 9-14 Live!

22.05 (23.RocketVenues 25) £6.00 (£4.page 50) 104 Dr Faustus Aug 3RocketVenues 0 (12.0Dark 0) £5.00RocketVenues (£§.00) Falling23-30 Out14.10.1OfThe Aug 9-13 0 (14.Crest 50) £4.Productions 00 (£3.00) page 103page 104 Genome Raven Aug 18.20 (19.40) page £6.00104(£4.00) Hirta23-28 Aug 9-14RocketVenues 20.RocketVenues 25 (21.25) £4.5page 0 (£3.10550) No Exit Aug 9-14 17.

1 5 (18.

3 0) £4.50 (£3.5Bare 0) Ragged Theatre page 77 The Picture of Dorian Gray Aug 16-21 17.3The0 (19.Magi15)c £6.00 (£5.00) andCompany Pillowstalk 8 Bal l Theatre Aug 23-28 19.30 Disney (21.15) £3.50 (£3.

0) Theatre pagepage9577 The Pitchfork Bare (£4. and00Ragged Aug 16-21 23.

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3 0) £5.00 0) The 16-28 Real Inspector11.Hound Aug 50Productions (13.20)Short £4.50Back (£3.0&0)Sides page 107 Red 9-14 Devils19.(not05Hot22) Aug (20.Poker 10) £5.00 (£3.00) page 91 • Aug Richard' s 21.Rainbow 77 16-21Perversity 00 (22.in50)Bare £6.0and0 (£5.Ragged 00) Theatre page • Aug Sexual9-14 Chicago RocketVenues page 104 16.

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4 5) £6.

5 0 (£4.

5 0) • Three Disciples Ascending Harvard-Westlake Project Preview Aug20.231520.(22.School/ 1515)(22.£5.00 1Rembiko 5) £3.00 00) page 90 Aug 24-30 (£3.00)(£2.Theatre • Titus Andronicus Bare and Ragged Aug 16-21 15.30 (17.

10) £6.00 (£“00) 105 page 77 • Trainspotting RocketVenues Aug 9-14 18.22.1400(19.(00.

55)25)£6.00 (£5.0page 0) Aug 16-21 • Aug Under16-28MilkWood (notor22)The14.Al1Bride 0 Theatre (15.2of5) Death £5.Productions 00 (£4.RocketVenues 00) page 74 page 104 • The Vampire Aug 23-28 15.

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0 0) • Year in the Death of £5.... 00RocketVenues Aug (£4.00) £7.00page 104 Double9-1416.00 Bil Price(17.(with00) Beryl Markham) Food and Ent: drink:5yd.Cafe available all day. Licensed 17.00 and andall daytoilets. on Sats.

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Flat.Wheelchair access tobarMaiafternassistance auditorium Studio cafe/bar on the second (Call ahead for wheelchair to the second floor.)and Guide dogs admitted.

Rocket Venue @ Theatre Arts Centre Venue 16 10 Davie Street Tickets 667 6666 LI3 Box Office: 11.45Venue- 21.45 (Info 667Southside 6666)Courtyard, joins Venue 123 under the new title Centrally located 16, formerly Rocket venues whichcomedy, is launching programme of diverseatmosphere. and innovative theatre, dance,anandexciting music. and Expectinvigorating food, drinks, and a dynamite Comedy <£ Revue • Aug Fit to9-21Burst Fit To 18.Burst page00) 24£5.00 (£4.00) (notHugh Suns) 00 (19.and • Hypnotist Lennon His Hypnodog Hypnotist Hugh Lennon and his 9-28Bridge (not Suns) 21.30Up(23.Theatre 30)Hypnodog £7.00 (£6.0page 0) 33 • AAug Tay too Far Aug 23-28 19.35 (21.05) £4.00 (£3.00)Company page 35 Music • Samuel page 60 Aug 23-28Hill21.00&- Daddi (22.10)Roco £6.00 (£5.RocketVenues 00) • Tom Modern Celtic(£3.

Harp Aug 14,Duncan 15 18.30 (19.

35) £5.00 00) RocketVenues page 60 Musicals/Opera • Aug Pump11-13Boys19.&00Blue (21.00)Moon £5.00Modern (£3.50) Dance Ohio Northern University page 68 Theatre • Abigail' Drama Society page 116 Aug 23-28s Party 18.00 Laboratorium (19.Warwick 10) £5.00University (£3.

• Andromache - 335(£2.0)page 93 Preview Aug 9 21.00 (22.

1 5) £5.00 5 Aug 10-12, 16-19 21.0000 (22.

(22.115)5) £7.50 £6.50 (£5. (£4.0)000)0) Aug 13-14, 2 0-21 21.

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16-21 13.05 (14.05)RocketVenues £5.00 (£3.00) page 105 • Aug Bloody B.AugR.A9-14 .T.SInnocence (Bishop Reindorp Level00)Theatre Studies) page 78 45 (20.Shrewsbury 30) £3.00'A'(£2.

• Journey' s19.End School 107 Aug 16-21 19.

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1 0) £6.00 (£4.00) page • Journey' s 1End Double Edge Drama page 83£6.00 (£5.00) Aug 10, 1 2, 4, 1 7, 1 9, 2 1, 2 4, 2 6, 2 8 16.

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5 0) • Aug Krapp'16-21s Last17.0Tape/Request Concert Midland Art Theatre page 95 0 (18.

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0 0) • Aug Lunch9-28 RocketVenues page 1055) £6.00 (£4.00) (not Suns) 12.

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1 • Aug Pterodactyls Theatre(£4.Company 23-28III18.0RocketVenues 0 Exacting (19.20) £5.00 00)105 page 85 • Aug Richard page 9-28 (notWho'Suns)ll Watch 13.45 (16.10) Me£5.00Double (£4.00) • Aug Someone 9,11,13,of16,Grey 18,20,23,25,2Over 7 15.55 (17.50) £6.00Edge(£5.Drama 00) page 83 • AUniversity Splash College London Union Drama Society page 115 Aug 9-14 Aug 16-21 14.14.19.303300(15.(15.

(20.15)115)5)£5.00 (£2.50) Aug 23-28 • AUniversity StreetcarCollege Named Desire Union Drama Society page 115 Aug 16-21 19.14.3300 (20.

(15.London Aug 23-28 445)5) £4.50 (£3.00) Food and Ent: drink:14ydFood1/2+1. andAdrink all day. (F 25" M awkward corners).

Disabled: ud: 10ydavailable +I3+I4WC Roman Eagle Lodge kio Venue 21 210.30-23.30 Johnston Terrace Tickets 226 7207 Box Office: Rightover in the20heart Edinburgh heart of theofFringe. packed with showsoffrom aroundandtheright world.at theA powerhouse dramaTwoandtheatres excitement.

Children' s Shows • Aug Kaleidoscope Connecticut 9-22 (not 16)Aurora/Western 11.30 (12.15) £5.00 (£3.00) State University page 8 Comedy Revue Shield! Outrageous Scripts page 38 • Aug Hang6-29a<£Bra 20.2on5 (21.your 25) £6.00 (£4.50) • Tubular Hells Purple Aug 16-28 18.00 (18.

50) Productions £5.00 (£4.00) page 39 Dance/Physical • Aug Kassandra University 6-29 22.50Cambridge (23.40) £5.00 (£3.50)ADC page 45 Talks <fi Events • Aug How to be10.Successfully Mad Outrageous Scripts page 71 Aug 6-22 23-29 11.1515(11.(12.15)15)£6.00 (£4.50) Theatre • Aug Charlie Chaplin 8-21 II .4Enematic 0 (13.is2Wearing 0) £5.page00 85(£4.my00)Pants Firefly Productions page 87 • The Dark23.20 Aug 6-22 (00.

5 0) 00) 23-29 23.Backstage 50 (01.2Theatre 0)£5.00 (£4.

• Aug Gaspers Company 77 Aug 9-20 (not 15) 13.

1 0 (14.

2 0) £5.00 (£3.page 50) Players • Aug Last23-29 Panto19.in15Little Grimley Paulerspury page 99 (20.

1 5) £6.00 (£5.

0 0) • Aug Late6-29 One22.Night Cambridge Mummers page 79 1 0 (23.

1 0) £6.00 (£4.

5 0) • AAugLetter to Alan 6-15 000(18.(13.50)5New £5.00Mercury (£4.00)Theatre page 97 23-2918.13.0Everyman 0)Youth • Aug Lifesaving Theatre 16.3s0 Paw...The (17.30) £5.00story(£4.starts 00) page 85 • Aug The 23-29 Monkey' Aug 15-21 midnight (00.45) £5.00 (£4.00) again AcX Theatre page 72

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Pounds, Dollars(£5.and00)Cents page 103 Aug 15) £6.00 Only6-22 Once19.13.151Wycliffe page 117(£4.00) Aug 23-29 5 (14.

1 5) £5.00 Playing with Murder15.20(16.20) Z Theatre 117 Aug 6-21 (notTues) £4.Company 00 Theatre (£3.50)page Politica Erotica Bristol Experimental Company page 78 Aug 23-29 00.20 (01.

0 5) £5.

0 0 Refugees American Dream Productions Aug 6-22 8,16)&13.Roll 45 (15.Offstage 00) £5.50Theatre (£4.page 50)page72 97 Sex, Drugs,(not19.Rock Aug 16-29 0 5 (20.

1 0) £5.

5 0 (£4.

5 0) Sex Games and Matching Outfits page 78 Bristol23-29 Experimental Theatre Aug 23.30 (00.

15)Politica £5.00Company Double Bi l Price (with Erotica)Jay£8.00 • Sherlock Holmes...

Productions Aug 6-29 (not 8,Z16,Theatre 23)the14.Company 3last5 (15.act!55) £6.50 (£5.7 00) page 92 • The Suicide poge// Aug 6-21 (notTues) 16.

3 0 (17.

4 0) £4.50 (£4.

00) • AAugSymmetry University 6-29 (notin Jerusalem 12,of2Love 4) 16.15Cambridge (17.35)Mercury £5.00 (£4.00)ADCpagepage97 79 • This Year New Theatre Aug 16-29 18.00 (18.55)117£5.00 (£4.00) • Two Wycliffe 23-29 11.45 page (12.45) £5.00page(£4.8700) • Aug Underground Aug 6-29 20.30 (21.The50)Firm £6.00Mercury (£4.50)Theatre page 97 • Watching Charlie New Aug 6-29 21.4Second 5 (22.35)Nature £5.00 (£4.

00)107 • Wolfsong page£5.00 Previews Aug 6-8 19.

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4 0) Previews Aug19.16-80 (19.19.40)45 £5.50 (20.15)(£4.50) (£4.00) Aug 9-15 Aug 9-15 19.45 (20.15) Disabled: Enc level.Aud: +20 Str HR..WC unadapted. Inaccessible for wheelchairs.

Ross52 Theatre and Princes Street Gardens Venue JI0 Edinburgh' s premier performanceshown previewoncentre with the Castle asonebackdrop andseenPrinces Street to the fore.

Performances 11 sqm daylight screens, can be from Princes Street on thelisting Internet cableFestival/Orbital TV and satellite-linked Covent GardenWorld-wide screen. Seetransmission main programme for Flux box-officetodetails.

Music • Aug Flux 13Festival/Orbital Flux Festival 20.00 (midnight) £12.50, £10.00 page 54 Talks <£ Events • Aug Festival Festival Revue 7-30 Revue 12.00 (midnight) Free page 70 Food and drink: Food and drink Disabled: Good disabled access. available.

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Venue 193 18.30-19.30 West Gate,(Info Arboretum Place352)Tickets 0374 167 352 Box Office: 0374 167 Visit the stunning Botanic Gardens at night and Theatrum see the sunset over theperform most spectacular views Witness the award Botanicum Shakespeare as youofhaveEdinburgh. never seen it before in thesewinning magical exotic surroundings.

Theatre • Theatrum The Caribbean Tempest Assoc with Aug 8-30 to19.Botanicum 30 (21.15)in99£10.00 (£8.0Holders 0) Season, Barbados page 113 • Journey Macbeth Theatrum Botanicum i n Assoc with Holders Aug 8-30 21.30 (23.15) £10.00 (£8.00) Season, Barbados page 113 Food and Disabled drink: Terrace Disabled: accesscafe. available.

Royal Fine Art for Scotland Venue 132 Bakehouse Close,Commission 146 Canongate KI5 Talks <fi Events • Aug Flesh11,and13,1Stone - Minds Meetings 8,20 17.30(19.00) Free Architecture on the Fringe page 70 Visual Arts • Aug Flesh2-29and11.Stone 00 (16.(Parts 00) Free2 and 3) Architecture on the Fringe page 118 Royal Museum and Museum of Scotland Venue 43 Chambers Street TicketsMon-Sat, 247 4219 Box 10.00-17.00 (Info 247 4219)K/2 NationalOffice: Museums of Scodand.(20.00Tues) Presenting Scodand to 12.00-17.00 the world andSun the world to Scodand.

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00) of Scotland • Aug The 29Voice National page 59 19.3of0 (21.the30)Carnyx prices from venue Musicals/Opera • Tinsel!

Brunstane Aug 0 (22.00)0North 0) £6.50page (£4.5650) Aug 9-13 14 14.19.000(17.

Talks EventsNational Museums of Scotland page 71 • Aug India<&15-22 Week various times and prices Food and Ent: drink:Lothian Cafe St.open2ydalramped. l day. Aud: 20yd ramped.WC adapted.Totally accessible.

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St Andrew’s <£ St George's Church hii Venue III 10.00-15.00.

13 George Street Tickets 225 3847 Box Office: Mon Fri from Aug I l.(lnfo 225 3847) ASituated very warm welcome awaits you at thes andvenueSt. George' where you could offers spendanyourambient entire Festival!

New Town, s Church atmospherein thein which to listenSt. Andrew' to stunning music programmes.

Alunless l showsotherwise listed below statedcan be found under St Andrew's and St George's at Festival Time Dance/Physical • Aug Strictly Scottish Strictly Scottish page 49 30 (21.

Aug 2117-2116.019.0 (18.

00)30) £7.00 (£6.00) Music • Aug Badinerie 30 (13.ofpagethe 30)60Free • Aug British1316 12.14.Song Century page 60 3 0 (16.

15) £6.20th00 (£5.

• The Cathedral Choir page00)60 Aug 13 19.

3 0 (21.

1 5) Free • Catriona McKay (Clarsach), Chris Stout51(Shetland Fiddle) The Clarsach Harp)(£6.Society 24Mor,19.3Ceol 0 (Scottish (21.3Beag 0) £7.00 00) page • Aug Ceol The Clarsach (Scottish Harp) Society page 51 19.30Orchestra (21.30) £7.00 (£6.

• Aug Choir2123 and page00)61 Aug 12.

3 0 (13.

3 0) Free • Clarinet Aug 26 14.and 30 (16.Piano 15) £6.00page(£5.page6100)60 • Clarinet Kaleidoscope Aug 17 14.30(16.15) • Aug The 28Coates Duo00) £6.00 page (£5.

61 000)0) 16.00of(17. £5.00 (£4.

• The Dawn the String Quartet 23Zene 12.30 (13.page30) 61£5.00 (£4.00) page 61 • Aug Duo 29 14.00Barock-The (15.00) £5.00 (£4.00)Alliance page 61 • Aug Edinburgh 20 12.30 (13.page30)61£6.00 Auld (£5.00) • Aug Ensemble 28 19.3The 0 (21.Clarsach 30) £7.00(Scottish (£6.00)Harp) Society page 51 • Aug Fat Hen 25 19.Ceilidh 30 (21.30)The£7.00Clarsach (£6.00)(Scottish Harp) Society page 51 • Aug Festival 27 19.Harp00 (22.and00)Voice £7.00 The (£6.00) (Scottish Harp) Society page 51 • Aug Fiddle, 26 19.Hunt' 30 (21.s 30)page £7.0061(£6.0Clarsach 0) • Aug Gareth Aug 28 14.0s0 (15.

00) £5.00 (£4.00) • Gladstone' Bag page 60 16 12.30 (13.30)pageFree61 • Aug Ian Ainsworth Aug 24Italian 12.30Influence (13.30) £5.00Arborea (£4.00)Musica page 50 • The 23,2Recital 5 14.30 (16.page 15) £6.00 (£5.00) • Aug Lieder 60 14a 19.la Carte 30 (21.15) £7.00 (£6.00) • Aug Love page 60 30 (13.songs 30) £5.00 (£4.19th/20th 00) • Aug Lyrica1714 -12.12.Love of the(£4.

30 (13.30) £5.00 00) Centuries page 60 • Aug Matthew Henrick page 61 Aug 18Merlyn 14.30(16.15) £6.00 (£5.00) • The Trio page 61(£5.

Aug 27 14.and30Vichy (16.15)Water £6.00 00) 61 • Onions Aug 20 Recitals 14.30 (16.15) page £6.0060(£5.0page 0) • Organ Aug 18, 2 5 12.

3 0 (13.

3 0) Free • Organ Spectacular 12.00 (13.00)page £5.0061page(£4.6100) • Aug Piano2826,Recitals Aug 2 7 12.

3 0 (13.

3 0) £5.00page(£4.6000) • The Twenties Aug 14Roaring 14.30at(16.

15) £6.00page (£5.00) • Schumann Large Aug 24Song14.3and 0 (16.the15) Story £6.00 (£5.The0610)Clarsach (Scottish Harp) Society page 51 • The 14.30 (16.1page 5) £7.00 (£6.00) • Aug Song2219Recital 12.the 30 (13.Night 30) £5.610page 0 (£4.00) • Aug Songs of 22 19.30 (21.15)Whistlebinkies £7.00 (£6.6100) page 64 • Aug Whistlebinkies Aug 28 19.30 (21.30) £7.00 (£5.00) Food and drink: Tea and coffee at time of performance. Snacks Mon-Fri 11.45-14.15.

Disabled: arrangement.Ent: 3yd 3 STr.Aud: 5yd Flat or side entrance at street level by prior St Andrews Hall Venue 74 Cathedral Lane Children' • Aug Fatima11,s13,Shows Children' 14 14.00s(15.Christian 30) FreeWorkshop page 8

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St Mark's Unitarian Church j9 Venue 125 1/2Castle Terrace BoxMark'Office: hourChurch beforewelcomes performance (Info 332 and3043)none to 11 am Services every StSunday. sEarlyUnitarian people of al l faiths 19th Century Scottish Architect, acoustics for Chamber Music.building ClosebytoDavid LyceumBryce, and Traverse Theatres andprovides Usherexcellent Hall.

St Ann's Community Centre Alstated l shows listed below can be found under St Marks in Castle Terrace unless otherwise Dance/Physical • Aug I Come 31-SeptFrom3 17.the30 Himalayas (19.00) £7.00 United (£6.00)Welfare Union, Nepal page 49 AlChildren’s l shows listedShows below can be found under Leicestershire Youth Arts Music • Alice in Wonderland page(£4.9 00) • Aug Baroque The15)Banquet Aug 23-28 00 (13.00) £5.00 29,30 322.10 0 Feast!

15.0(23.0 (16. £6.0(£4.0 (£4.00)of00)Musick page 62 • The Secret12.12.Garden page (£4.

9 00) Aug 1 0) £6.00 Aug 16-21 0 0 (13.

0 0) £5.00 • Cameo page 62 • The Aug 27,28 Gadelica 20.45 (21.45) £6.00 00) Aug Wind 16-21 16.inWitch 0the 0 (17.Willows 00) £5.009 (£4.page00)9 • Carmina page 62(£4.

• The Aug 23-26Chadwick 20.45 (21.4(soprano) 5) £5.00 (£3.Jol00) ‘ Aug Worst 16-28 (not 22) 10.0page 0 (11.00) £5.00 (£4.00) • Carolyn Sept I and 14.30Piano (16.00) £6.00 (£5.0page 0) Musicals/Opera • Cello • Aug Fame16-28 page 67 18.00 (19.00) £5.00 (£4.00) 30 17.Martineau 00 (18.30)Recital £6.00page(£4.6200) 62 (notpage22) • Aug Francis • Aug Godspeil 67 Aug 23,24,Steele 26 18.00 (19.00)Total £5.00 22) 14.00 (15.67 00) £5.00 (£4.00) • Joscelyn page 62 • Aug The 16-28 Hired(not 15Cartledge 20.00 (21.3(piano) 0)Flute £5.00 (£4.page00)Involvement...

16-28 (notMan22) 20.page 00 (21.15) £5.00 (£4.00) • Aug Lucy 62 Aug 22 20.

0 0 (22.

0 0) £7.00 (£4.

0 0) Theatre • Margaret & Simon - Piano Duo page 62 • Aug Macbeth 20.0Wakeford 0 &(21.Nelda 50) £6.00 (£4.00)Coverdale 23-28 16.0page 0 (17.9500) £5.00 (£4.00) • Aug Mary1412Young J Hardie page 62 Aug 20.

1 5 (21.

4 5) £6.00 (£5.

0 0) • Aug Mdina27 Music 62 (£3.00) 18.15.00(16.00) 00 (19.0page 0) £5.00 Aug 28Cooper, • Mia Elaine Cocks, St Cecilia's Hall KI3 Aug 25 17.00 (19.00) £6.00 (£3.Robin 00) Michaelpageand62Rebecca Woolcock page 62 • Aug Robin24 Michael &30)Rebecca Woolcock Venue 31Infocnr650Niddry Street & Cowgate 14.

0 0 (15. £6.00 (£3.

00) - From Platform to Parlour page 62 Phones: 2805 Montgomery StEdinburgh' Cecilia'ss HalOldl, Town. home ofDesigned the Russelby lRobert Collection ofe iEarl y Keyboard Instruments, is iisnthe oldest • Sheila Aug 29 Graham 20.Mile15 Consort (21.&45)Stuart £6.00 (£5.0&0) Rosie Sweetnam Myl n n 1760 and opened i n 1763 it • Squair ofViols (soprano) page 62 purpose-built concert hall in Scotland. Suitable for chamber music recitals and readings.

Aug 20.00(22.(22.000)0)£600 £6.00(£4.(£4.00)00) Sept 313 Extravaganza 20.00 Alotherwise l shows listed below can be found under Harpsichords At St Cecilia' s Hal l unless • Viola page 62 stated Aug 10 14.30 (15.30) £5.00 (£3.00) Music • Aug Bach'21s Well-tempered Clavier page 57 15.

0 0 (17.

0 0) £6.

0 0 (£4.

0 0) • Aug Baroque 17Dresden 15.Masterworks 00 (16.Connection 30) £6.00for(£4.Harpsichord 00)page 57 page 57 Musicals/Opera • The • Aug Musical page(£5.69 00) Aug 24 15.

0 0 (16.

3 0) £6.00 (£4.

0 13-15Magic 17.00 (19.SNUG 00) £6.00 • Aug The 26Dresden Connection 2 00)0) page 57 • St. 'Dove(£3. of0Iona' 15.

0 0 (16.

3 0) £6.00 (£4.

AugColumba' 28,29 17.3s0 Players (18.45) £5.00 0) • Edinburgh EdinburghRenaissance RenaissanceBandBandpageYI.5K Show 53 Theatre Aug 14, 1 5, 2 0, 2 1 19.

3 0 (21.

0 0) £7.00 (£5.

0 0) • Black and Blue Money, Cup, Sugar,Water 95 • Aug European Baroque Spectrum 57 16-22Zuckerman' 17.15 (18.30)s Warhorse £5.50 (£4.00)AncianospageProductions 19 15.0Fugues 0 (16.30)and£6.00 (£4.00) pagepage • Aug Samuel page 74 • Aug Fantasias, Fiorature...

57 Aug 9-12 17.

4 0 (18.

4 0) £6.00 (£4.

0 0) 00 (16.3Germany 0) £6.00 (£4.and00)England page 57 Aug 16-21Variations: 20.20 (21.2Selected 0) Sonnets Hampden-Sydney Sonneteers page 89 • Aug Music1412 of15.15.Cl8th • Sonnet 00 (16.30) £6.00 00) Aug • Songs Music(£4.

Aug 16-18 16-18 14.15.0300 (15.

(16.030)0) £3.00 (£2.00) Aug 28 and 15.00Keyboard (16.30) £6.00 (£4.00)page 57 Disabled: Ent 3yd 2.Aud: 5yd Flat. Ramp access with supervision only.

Talks <fi Events • Aug Magyars 13 15.and 00 (17.Makars 00) £6.00Scottish (£3.50)Poetry Library page 71 St Mary's Cathedral Food and drink: Refreshments at time of certain performances only.

Venue 91InfoPalmerston Place Disabled: Ent NiddrytoSt.unlock Aud: level. unadapted.

Phones: 225Gilbert 6293Scott, wheelchair bookings door.WC Indurtion Loop.Advise curator in advance re Designed by Sir the cathedral is fivitself, e minutes from -Princes West End. It's venues are the Cathedral building and thewalkSongwestSchool home ofStreet' the s St Cuthbert's Parish Church J9 outstanding Phoebe Traquair murals.

AlMusic l shows listed below can be found under St Mary's Cathedral unless otherwise stated • Cathedral Festival Choral Music Aug 10.15.3300 (11.

310)5) FreeSunday Services page 62 • Lunch Time Parish OrganChurch RecitalsLunchat Time St Cuthbert' s ParishpageChurch Aug 15,15,222,2,2299Festival (16.Choral StAugCuthberts Organ Recitals 61 • Cathedral 16-20,23-27s Parish 12.45 (13.

30) FreeConcert of French Music Aug 16,18 116.7,109,0 2(17.0,203-28 17.30 (18.Evensong 15) Free on Weekdays page 62 • StSt Cuthberts Cuthbert' Church Aug 0)s Cathedral Parish Church Lunch Time Organ Recitals page 61 • Choir of St Mary' Aug 22 20.00 (22.00) Free Aug 27 19.30 (21.00) £5.00 in Concert page 62 Disabled can be brought to the door although there is no parking in Church grounds.

Aug 10,17,24 22.30 (23.15) £page 62 Lunchtime St Giles' Cathedral Aug 16-20 13.Concerts 1■0 (13.50)reFree62 JI2 ~ Venue Highwhere Street,JohnRoyal 8, 1 5, 2 2, 2 9 16.30 (17.3Song 0) Fi School Murals page 62 St. Giles'187Cathedral, KnoxMile preached as minister, is the historic high kirk of Scotland. Aug Phoebe Anna Traquair Aug 9-28 (not Suns) 12.

0 0 000)0) Free Music 9-28 (not Suns) 14.Choir 00 (13.

(15.Festival FreeConcert page 62 0 Scottish Borders Wind & Chamber Orchestras • Aug Scottish Chamber n ofYouth Orchestras page 58 Aug 15 20.

0 0 (21.

4 5) £7.00 (£5.

00)- 1999) Aug 29 18.

0 0 (19.

0 0) Free • Tribute to David Hume (1937 Philomusica Of Edinburgh page 60 • The Southampton University Sinfonietta Aug 14 20.Gloria 00 (22.00) £7.00 (£5.Choir 00) • Vivaldi: Aug 22National 18.00 Association (19.00) Freeof Youth Orchestras page 58 Aug 21 20.00 (22.- 0Cadenza 0) £7.00 (£5.00) page 62 Talks <& Events Disabled: Ent:3yd I.Aud:4yd FlatWC. • Edinburgh Interfaith Time ForAssociation Rest and Silence Aug 16-20 Interfaith 17.30 (18.30) Free page 70 Food and Ent: drink:6ydLower Disabled: + 7 Str.aisleAud:cafe5ydopen Flat. all day.

Venues

St Michael and All Saints' Church L9 Venue Brougham Street Stworld-wide Michael95 andAnglican All Saints' i s a member of the Scottish Episcopal Church and part of the Catholic tradition. Communion. It welcomes all to its services which are in the AngloMusic • Music at St Michael Church & All Saints St Michael Aug 15,22,2&9Al11.l Saints 00 (12.30) Free page 62 Food and Level drink:access Coffee/tea available- suitable after service.

Disabled: throughout for wheelchairs.

St Paul's and St. George's Church HallHI3 Venue IIS York Place Tickets 554 1502 Theatre • Aug Partners Imperfect £5.00 John Lewis Players page 92 9-14 19.30(21.00) Disabled: Ramp access via carpark at church on York Place.

St Peter's Church Hall pis Venue 17 Lutton Place performance (Info 664 2585) Box Office: l/2hr before Southside / central. Just off main bus route.

Theatre • Aug The Comedy of the19.Marks Suns) 45 (22.00)Edinburgh £6.00 (£5.People’s 00) Theatre page 84 Aug 6-21 21 of14.(not 30 (16.

45)Edinburgh • Aug Time My Life People' s Theatre page 84 45 (22.

Aug 2824-2814.319.0 (16.

45)00) £6.00 (£5.00) Food and Ent: drink:40ydCoffee and biscuits performance.

Disabled: (W at+ Mtime22").ofDisabled access to auditorium, coffee bar and ladies WC. (Gent'+1.s WCAud:WC up stairs).

Venues Sheraton Grand Hotel js Venue 113 10.00-19.00 I Festival Square, Lothian Road (venue) Tickets(Info 226 665 51389742) Box Office: (Fringe) 20.00-21.00 The Edinburgh Suite iiss decorated in a 20's/30's style in one of Scotland's largest 5-star hotels.The Sheraton Lyceum,Traverse and Thesituated UsheratHalthel. very heart of Edinburgh's theatrical life, alongside the Theatre • Aug Shakespeare 5-14 21.00at(22.the30)Sheraton £9.00 (£6.00)Theatre Alba / MPR page 111 Food and drink: Alcohol and soft drinks.

The Beck's Famous Spiegeltent m Venue 87 beside Scottand Monument, Princes Street Tickets 558 8010 Box Office: I 1.00-23.30 on the door (Info 558 8015) The Beck' appearingstarring at the Scott Monument in all its mirrored glory. . . fors 4Famous weeks Spiegeltent only.&ACelebrations.

Festivalnowshowcase a stunning Cabaret, A pleasure garden, cafe andarraybar.ofSeeConcerts, Spiegeltent brochureParties, for full Clubs programme.

AlChildren' l shows listed below can be found under The Beck' s Famous Spiegeltent unless stated s Shows 11 • Aug Mr Boom 9-12,16-27page 11.00 (12.00) £3.50 (£3.00) Comedy & Revue • Jimeoin Aug 8-22 (notpage16) 4221.30 (22.40) £10.00 (£8.00)

Aug 14,15-1820,2119.23.00 (00.30)30) £8.00 (£5.00) Aug 00 (20.Graffiti Black27,28 Umfolosi page 56 Aug 14.

0 0 (15.

1page 0) £8.00 Deaf31Shepherd 63(£6.(£7.00)00) Aug 19.

3 0 (21.

0 0) £8.00 Eric 22,Bogle Aug 19.3063page (21.3630) £8.00 (£6.00) Fruit23-2723page Aug 23.

0 0 (00.30) £7.00Kokalo (£5.00) Graffiti page 56 Kalman Aug 18 23.Balogh: 00Russian (00.1Romano 0) £10.00 (£8.Band00) Graffiti Loyko:The Gypsy Aug 11 19.Gypsies 30 (20.40)of £10.00 (£8.00)Graffiti pagepage5656 Musafir: Rajasthan Aug 9 19.

3 0 (20.

4 0) £10.00 (£8.

00) The Blind(00.Dogs page Aug 29Old23.00 3Moving 0) £7.00Shnorers (£5.0630) page 63 Orient Express (00.

The Salisbury Centre pi4 Aug Aug 21,2915-17, 219.7,231809,3(21.

17.0 023.00 30)30) £7.00 (£5.00) 000)(18.page Venue 46 217.30-19.30 Salisbury Road • Aug Peatbog Faeries 63 00) Box Office: Mon-FriTickets 667 5438 Aug 22Poozies 23.00 (00.3page 0) £7.00 • The 63£8.0(£5.0 (£6.

Talks <& Events Aug 19-21 21.

0 0 (21.

3 0) 00) • Chhi Healing Sounds Mantra Chanting Workshop • Tam White'19.s3Big Band Centre(£5.0page Aug 24-28 0 (21.Cuba 30) £8.Graffiti 00page(£6.063page 0) 56 Aug 17,Yoga20 and19.0Meditation 0 (22.00) £6.00 0) 70 • Vocal Sampling: Aug 13 23.

0 0 00.

1 0) £10.00 (£8.

0 0) Aug 14 19.

3 0 (20.

4 0) Food and drink: Tea and coffee by donation.

Food and Completely drink: All dayaccessible bar and -cafe.

Disabled: Restricted access. Studio up stairs.

Disabled: ramped throughout, disabled toilet.

Salvation Army HQ us The Stand Comedy Club H12 Venue 198 I East Adam Street "The amazingly comfortable SalvationdrinksArmyandHQ" 5 York Place Tickets 558 7272 'The Pleasance' (Venue 33) where food(Scotsman are served95)all situated day. bang opposite VenueS Box Office: 12.00-20.00 Scotland' s own comedy club doesn' t rip anyone off.

Comfortable cabaret style seating Theatre tables. wines.wage.

Mouth-watering lunches for underwith • Aug Hoodwinked Jakes Ladder Theatre Company page(£5.9200) £5. We Fair pay bar bar prices, staff 25realperalescentandabovegreatthehouse minimum 16, 1 7, 1 9-24, 2 6-28 (not 22) 19.

0 0 (20.

1 5) £6.00 Aug 18,25 15.00 (16.15) Children' s Shows - The Stand Comedy Club page 11 • TumTumTinker Disabled: Good disabled access. Ground floor auditorium. Wheelchairs welcome.

Preview Aug(notI 16)13.013.0 (13.10 4(13.5) 5£3.5)0£4.0 (£2.

Aug 6-29 00 0(£3.0) 00) Saughtonhall Congregational Church & Revue Venue 153 Saughtonhall Drive, Edinburgh Tickets 449 4856 HI Outer Comedy • Allan Miller: Box Office: 19.00-19.30 and during show (Info 449 4856) Preview Aug I4,Balinese 22.5 019.0 0(23.0 (20.Shadow 00)00)£3.£3.00 00 Porn - The Stand Comedy Club: Stand I Previews Aug Theatre Aug 6-29 (not 16) 17.

1 5 (18.

1 5) £5.00Comedy (£4.00) Club page 42 • Aug Murder Southern Light Drama page 109 • Aug Best6-29 of Irish Stand 18.00Comedy (19.Comedy 15) £5.- 0The0-(£4.The 00)Stand Comedy 16-21in 19.Company 30 (22.00) £6.00 • Aug Best6-29 of Scottish Club page 42 Food and Good drink:access Availablewithatdisabled interval.toilet.

Bob Dv Auv21.‘ 3f020.00 ~(22.40)f21.£5.2"0100 (£4.1 00)TL Disabled: (£4.00) Club page Free6-29 & Easy The00)StandFree0Comedy Scotch Malt Whisky Society Bi9 Aug 13.30--(15.

Venue 102 The Vaults, 87 Giles St. Leith Info 554 3451 Improverted The Stand Comedy Stand I I Box Office: 09.00-18.00 (Info 554 3451) Preview Aug(not4 22.16)023.0 (23.

0£5.0 00Club: Aug 6-29 10 0(00.0)Si1£3.0)Marxist (£4.- The00) Stand Comedy Club: Stand I page 42 Jane Mackay: Housewife Music • Aug Craws8,9,and n0g0)and£12.Friends page 60one free whisky) 11,15,Linties 16,22,23 Robin 20.00 Lai(22.Robin 5ng0 and (includes .05 (22.05) £5.00 (£4.00) Stand Comedy Club page 42 • Whisky, Friends 60 • Aug Kevin6-29nayes: Aug 10,17,Women 18,24,25 and 20.00Song (22.00) £12.50Lai(includes one freepagewhisky) (not Beyond 16) 14.25the(15.1Pale 5) £5.- 0The 0 (£4.00) Food and drink: Licensed bar al l day.

Disabled: 8yd 22Str (external).Aud: 14yd Flat.WC (28"). Guide dogs admitted, THE STAND COMEDY CLUB continues over the page phone, helpEnt:available.

Not HRadvisable for wheelchairs.

St Serfs Church Hall ais Venue 83 Clark Road, Goldenacre Box Office: 19.00-19.30 Theatre • Aug Gaelic26,2Drama Gaelic 0 (21.Edinburgh 45) £6.00 (£5.0Drama 0)page 95Group page 84 • Aug The 7-21 Laird7(not19.o'3Suns) Grippy 19.3Leitheatre 0 (22.00) £6.00 (£5.00) Food and Ent: drink:60ydUnlicensed, lightFlatWC refreshments atPermanent time of performance.

Disabled: I.Aud:4yd (W 24"). sloping ramp, with handrail, to entrance from pavement now installed.

• • • • • • • • •

Venues THE STAND COMEDY CLUB continued • Kevin Hayes: Preview Aug 45 21.21.E 1050 (22.

Preview Aug (22.40 10(20.S)0) 4£3.£3.0)00£5.00 00 (£4.00) Aug 6-29 (not 16)My19.Granny • -The MartinStandBigpig: wasI I a Bearded Comedy Club: Stand page 43 Lady Previews Aug 4, 5 20.

3 0 (21.

3 0) £3.

0 0 6-29 (notUproar 16) 20.20 (21.Stand 20) £5.00 (£4.0Club: 0) Stand I page 42 • Aug Northern Comedy Preview Aug22.35022.(23.303-0)(23.The£5.00 30) £3.00 Aug 6-29 (£4.

0 0) • OH! WhatAuga6Lovely - The Stand Comedy Club page 42 Preview 315.0 (16.3Blouse 7-29God’s (not 16)15.Comic 0-3(16.0)The3£3.00 0)Stand £5.00Comedy (£4.00) Club: Stand I I page 43 • Aug Parrot: Preview July 295 22.21.30 (22.030)0)£3.£3.00 Preview Aug 0 0 (23.

0 0 Aug 6-29 50) £5.00 (£4.0Club 0) • The StandJuly21.-530,0The(22.

Previews 31 Stand 21.5)00 Comedy (23.15) £6.00 (£5.0page 0) 42 Aug 6-29 23.

3 0 (01.

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1 5) • Stand-Up Scotland - The00)Stand Preview July 19.3000(20.(20. £3.00Comedy Club: Stand I page 42 Preview Aug18.2912519.(19.

30) £3.00 Aug 6-29 1 5) £4.00 (£3.00) Stand Comedy Club: Stand I I page 42 • Useless Guide Previews Jul(noty 30,16)3to1 19.Scotland 18.0000(20.(19.000)-0)The £3.00 00) Aug 6-29 £5.00 • Yank Me!Aug- 5The17.Stand Comedy Club (£4.page 42 Preview 0 0 (18.

0 0) £3.00 Aug 6-29 (not 16) 17.00 (18.00) £5.00 (£4.00) Theatre • Previews Eddie Bannon:4,5 Big15.0Fat Dog - The Stand Comedy Club: Stand I page 109 Aug 6-29Aug (not 16) 15.000(16.(16.000)0)£3.00 £5.00 (£4.00) Food and drink: Cafe/bar open and hot food noon-17.30.

Hot food Stand after Midnight. rooms by arrangement.

Disabled: StepsOne to altlilvenues, dependingSnacks/bars on room mayin albel 3 available Steel Bella Venue Venue 61 George IVavailability Bridge, entrance ononVictoria Street0956Tickets 226 5138 Box Office: Limited of tickets door (Info 572 483) Descend through the dusty damp depths of the old Book Den and emerge into BelEnjolay'stheglorious altitudeafternoons world ofVisual Music and Plastic People.Steel swinginglowchilled of "SteelArt,Theatre, Bella on Sunday".

Theatre • Aug Maenad of the23.4Mabinogi Steel(£5.Bel0la0)Venue page 109 13,16 21.18-20 45) £6.00 45 (22.455)(00.Out • Aug Perfect Women-All Arts Aug 20.00 (21.45)• £7.00Inc(£6.Steel 00) Bella Venue page 109 Aug 10-14, 14,20,2118-2115.00(16.45) Visual • Aug CanArts I Kiss10.You? Bella Venue page 123 7-28 00 (18.Steel 00) Free Stockbridge House • Aug Crazy20,for page 52 (£5.00) 21,2Gershwin 5,26,28 20.15 (21.

• Aug Mad 18,about page445)5)52£7.00 19,23,the24,2Boy 7 20.15 (21. £7.00 (£5.00) Theatre • Abigail' s Party page 83 18-28 (not 22) 22.page15 83(00.15) £7.00 (£5.00) • Aug Atramuntanat 18-28 (not 22) 15.15 (17.00)page£7.0830 (£5.00) • Aug Get that Down Aug Wanderer 18-28 (not 22)you12.pageNow 00 (13. (£3.00) • The 83 145)5) £5.00 Aug 18-28 (nots 22)Eyes18.00 page (19. £7.00 (£5.00) • Your Father' 83 Aug 18-28 (not 22) 13.45 (14.35) £5.00 (£3.00)

KI2 The Subway Club Venue 79 691/2Cowgate Box minutes Office: hour before each and performance (Messages 225 6766) Two walk from Grassmarket Fringe Office, this established venue i s host to the Hamstrings year. Alseven l daynights bar andto light enjoyHarland Edinburgh' s busiestfornighta fourth club, open Sam.snacks. After 10pm stay and Theatre • Aug Bouncers Group page 90 8-21 20.00Harland (21.Harland 30)Hamstrings £4.00Hamstrings (£3.Theatre 00) Theatre • Aug Commitments 9-21 (not 11, 1 8) 14.

0 0 (15.

3 0) £4.00 (£3.Group 00)Grouppagepage90 90 • Simon Says Harland Hamstrings Theatre Aug 8-21 (not 11, 1 8) 16.

0 0 (17.

3 0) £4.00 (£3.

00) • Aug Strangers 8-21 18.0Harland 0 (19.30)Hamstrings £4.00 (£3.Theatre 00) Group page 90 Summer Nights @ Lennoxlove K22 outer Venue 180 10.00-19.00 Lennoxlove(Info House,220Haddington 225 7888 Box Office: 1953)spectacularTickets Lennoxlove hosts this first Summer Night i n the grounds of this fine stately home.

Legendary singer/songwriter JamesbyTaylor headlines; Eric Bibb and TamFatWhite' s fame) Shoestring Band supporting.

Good food Clarissa Dickson-Wright (Two Ladies and team wil compliment this musical feast.

Music Food and drink: International food village, assorted bars and wine tent.

Disabled: toilet facilities.Designated disabled access carpark at entrance, viewing platform and nearby LI I Teviot Row House Venue 14 Bristo Square Tickets 650 4673 Box Office: 20.00-02.00 Club culture continues at the oldest Student Union building i n the world.

Featuring Cream, Ministry, and more.Teviot Row ofHouse is fully decorated and packed with lights,Bugged soundOut, and Golden party atmosphere every night the Fringe.

Music • Aug Club6-28Festival 21.00 (05.The00)Edinburgh from £4.00International Club Festival page 52 Food and drink: Food and drink available.

Theatre East End Musicals/Opera • Aug Perchance22.to45Dream Arkle Theatre Company page 65 (23.45) £5.00 Aug 2116-2018.15(19.15) Theatre • Aug Much16-21 Ado19.About Arkle00)Theatre Company page 74 45 (22.Nothing 15) £7.50 (£5.

Disabled: Accessible venue. Advance notice preferred but not essential.

F9 Theatre Workshop Venue 20 3410.00-23.00 Hamilton(Info Place225Tickets 226 5425 Box Office: 7942) Theatre Workshopwe ihost s a maverick ofexcellent, the Scottishinnovative, Theatrerelevant Scene asandwellcurrent as an award venue.This the mostshows theatrewinning of the fringe. Grabyear a breather between in our laid-back cafe.

Comedy <6 Revue • Aug Kosovar Cabaret(midnight) Leaner and Fitter page 35 Aug 23,24-2930 21.30 22.15 (midnight) £8.00 £6.50 (£5. (£4.000)0) Theatre • After - Commotion (North Ayrshire Scottish12Juliet Of0Youth Theatre Youth page 106Theatre) 14.National 3Women 0 (15.Association 45) of£5.the 00 (£3.Flesh 0) Theatre • Aug BeAugCarna, Workshop page 112 17-30 (notCode23) One 18.30 (19.30) £6.00 (£4.00) • Scottish Character National Association Of Youth Theatre page 106 I 1-14 Theatre 18.00 (18.Workshop 45) £5.00 (£3.page00)112 • Aug D.A.R.E. Previews Aug21.313,0 (23.

14 22.30 (midnight) £3.00(21.00) £7.00 (£4.00) Aug 16, 1 7 0 Aug 19 17.20.30 3(19.0 (22.00)00)0) Aug Aug 202518 15.18.19.333000 (17.

Aug 24,29 Aug (20.0000)0)0) Aug Aug 2126 16.13.3300 (15.

(18.000)0) 27 -14.Movens 30 (16.0-0)Exit: Creation Aug 28 12.Triple 30 (14.

• Aug Daska Bill Theatre Workshop Aug (14.550)0) Aug Aug 2018 21.17.1100 (18.

(22.550)5) £6.00 (£3.00) page 113 Aug 211719 13.19.15.111000 (20.

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10 (15.Workshop 50) • Aug Dream17,1State 9,21,23,- Gentlemen 2Theatre 5,27,29 12.Works 30 Teatr (13.2Theatre 0)Biuro £6.0Podrozy 0 (£5.00) pagepage111112 • Aug Drink17,Vinegar 18 17.45 (18.

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(19.Young 30) People' • Aug Feckin' s Theatre Scottish13-14National Association 14.3Youth 0 (16.

00)Theatre, £5.00Of(£3.Youth 00) Theatre page 106 • Aug Fire! - Palace Kilmarnock Scottish National Association Of Youth 8-14 18.3590 (19.Seconds 30) £5.00 (£3.00) Theatre page 106 • Aug 59 Minutes, Scottish National Association page 106 7,8 14.- Primitive 30 (15.30) Science £5.00 (£3.Of0Youth 0) Theatre • Aug Hunger Theatre Workshop page 112 Aug 24, 2 9 12.

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2Shysters 0) £5.00Of(£3.Youth 00) Theatre • Aug Scary Antics Theatre Workshop 17-21 11.3s0Box (12.20)Theatre £5.50 Workshop (£3.50) page 112 page 112 • Aug Schrodinger' Aug 24-29 23.

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12-14As You 12.30Are(13.3Y0)Touring Theatre Company page 117 • Aug Sweet 17-30Sides(not 22,Theatre 29) 10.Workshop 00 (12.00) £5.50 (£3.50) • Aug Taking24-29 page 22.1To5 (midnight) £6.50 (£4.

0page 0) 112112 • ToAug Have and Hold Theatre 28 Aug 17-30 (not Youth Suns) 14.Theatre 15 (15.4-5)Friendly £7.00 (£5.Fire00) • West Lothian Scottish National Association Of(£3.Youth Theatre page 106 Aug 6-1 I 16.

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Sea30)Theatre Aug 17-29 £6.00 (£5.Workshop 00) page 112 Food and Ent: drink:3ydCafe late. on level (Adapted). Studio: Lift available, Disabled: Flat. andMai nlicensed Aud:Cafe25ydbaraccessible.

Fl'tialt. WC voice synthesiser, braille buttons. system, help available.Very accessible. Minicom 226Guide 5425.dogs admitted, induction loop Three-Quarter Sports Bar kio Venue 190Info 4622Grassmarket Phones: 1622 The house of Sport i n Edinburgh offers food and drink al l day i n the exciting and interesting surroundings of sporting memorabilia. Our free stand-up review is a high-light of the Fringe.

Comedy <& RevueHill And Some Comedians Free Peter Buckley Hil page 17 • Aug Peter7-30Buckley (not 14,28) 21.25 (22.55) Free (no ticket required) Food and drink: I 1.00-01.00 Traquair House pis Outer Venue 118 09.00-18.00 Innerleithen, Peeblesshire Tickets 01896 830323 Box Office: Talks <& Events • Aug Traquair 7,8 11.Fair 00 (18.Traquair 00) £10.00Fair(£6.page00) 71£9.00 (£5.00) in advance Food and drink: Restaurant Disabled: Partial access. and cafe.

Venues

• The Juju GirhTraverseTheatre 113 15) £7.50 (£4.50) Previews 19.0000)(21.30) Aug 1017,Company 30) page Aug Aug 15,22Aug 02,217.7 6-83I 01.(20.

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0 (21.00)00) Sept Aug 262 16.21.1155(18.(23.445)5) Aug 31 ,Sept 00 1(22.5) 30) Sept • Aug Krishnan' s Dairy page 113 10,14,19,24,28,Sept 32 17.00(18.10) 14.30 (15.40) £9.00 (£6.00) Aug Aug 13,12,I 1,1118,7,5,2222,1,0,2227,6,5,S321,9,eptSSepteptI 12.00(13.10) 4 19.30 (20.40) Aug • Preview Misterman: 10Corcadorca page00 (£4.

113 0 (20.10)40) £6.Aug Aug 13,I 1, 115,Aug 220 12.17.19.00003(13.

12,14,117,9020)19.1 314.0 3(20.0 (15.40)40) £9.00 (£6.00) Aug 8, 2 (18.

1 0) Aug • Aug Mojo24-Sept Mickybo: 4 (notKabosh 30) 22.00 page (22.page55)113113 £9.00 (£6.00) • Previews Riddance:AugPaines Plough 10 17.

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3 0) Aug I 3I 0)19.£9.3000(21.(£6.00)00)£6.00 (£4.00) Aug 12, 1 7, 2 1, 2 5, 2 9, S ept 3 12.

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Aug 14.3300)(16.00) Aug 15,14,13,2110,9,8,2227,4,2,S228,6,eptS31,eptI Sept17.2 019.40 3(18.

0 (21.0of0)Joint page 113 • Aug Some Explicit Polaroids: Previews Aug21.1125 (22.

20.0405)(21.30)OutAug Aug 17,14 217.1,2360 11.(19.0000)(12.£7.50 (£4.50) Aug 15, 2 0 Aug 18,2282,218.7 314.0 4(20.5 (16.00)15) Aug 19 217.9 22.30 1(19.5 (23.00)45)30) £ 12.00 (£7.50) Aug 24, Aug 25, • Stones In His10 Pockets: Lyric Theatre Preview11-22Aug 0 (midnight) 0 (£4.Belfast 0(£6.0) 00) page 113 Aug (not 22.16)022.00 (midnight)£6.0£9.00 • Werewolves:Theatre Archipelago (formerly page 113 Preview14,1Aug 045)(21.30)Aug£7.5015,2(£4.0,255,0)29 11.00Communicado) Aug 91,220.6 11113.5 19.4(22.5 0(16.

(13.30) £ 12.00 (£7.50) Aug 17, 2 1 5) Aug 18, 2 2, 2 7 17.30(20.00) Aug Aug 312 20.,Sept00 3(22.12.330)0 (15.00) Sept 24,Whisperers: 1,42816.21.1515(18.(23.4Rough 5)45) Magic Sept • The Aug 24, 2 8 11.

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3 0) Aug 2725,221.9page 14.5 4(23.5113(17.45)15) £9.00 (£6.00) Aug 26 17.

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0 0) Aug 1 Aug 3 16.15 (18.45) Sept 1,4 20.00 (22.30) Sept 31,Sept 2 12.30(15.00) Visual Arts • Dazzle ContemporaryJewellery Jewellery Exhibition DazzleI I-Sept Contemporary Exhibition page 118 Aug 4 10.00 (midnight) Free Food and drink: Traverse Bar Cafe serving food drinkbuttons).WC all day until very, veryatlate.Ent and Disabled:handrails.

Ent: 16yd flat.Aud: 15yd flat to lift (large,andbraille adapted Aud Very level, accessible. Guide dogs admitted. Wheelchair spaces, induction loop. Help available.

The Tron K12 Venue 9 9 Hunter Square, High Street Tickets 0931Office. (Info 226 0931) Office: door tickets in Inadvance fromof226 Fringe It'theBoxs AFringe ScreamBoxPayatOffice.Three theon heart oforthe Fringe. the middle the Royal Mi l e , two minutes from floors,18'three dancing - we've got the lot. Over s only.bars, comedy, songwriters, clubs, food, drink, Comedy & Revue • Aug A Goodtime, at the23.Dead 30 (01.of0Night!

0) £5.00 Smug Club Productions page 42 • Aug A One8-12,15-19,22-26 8-29Night 18.30 Stand...Would (20.00) £5.00 You? Smug Club Productions page 42 Music • Aug Cheeky Monkey 13,14,Monkey 20,Songwriters' 21,27,2Cheeky 8 21.00Showcase (03.00) Freepage 50 • Acoustic Edinburgh Underground at the Aug 10,17,24 20.Acoustic 30 (22.3Underground 0) £2.Tron00 pageat 50the Tron page 50 • Aug Holly4,3,1Tomas 1, 1 8, 2 5 20.

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3 0) £5.00 (£3.0at0)the Tron page 50 • Aug Polly8,Phillips 15,2Meg 2,29 20.Acoustic 45 (22.3Underground 0) £5.00 (£3.00)at the Tron page 50 • Aug Swelling Acoustic 19,26 20.Underground 45 (22.30)Underground £5.00 (£3.00) Traverse Theatre J9 • Word5,12,Acoustic Venue 15 Cambridge Street, off10.00-19.30) Lothian Road Tickets 228 1404 Aug 2,9,16,23,30 20.45 (22.30) £5.at0the0 (£3.Tron00) page 50 Box Office: 10.00-23.00 (Mons (Info 228 3223) Scotland'of our s world famousyoung newdramatists" writing theatre with "top international shows and the latest Food and Ent: drink:3ydRestaurant, snacks,+13licensed bar alStr.l day.7yd +2 Str HR.WC unadapted at work brightest 2 forStr.wheelchairs.

Aud: 2yd Str+ lyd+14 drink and guaranteed celebrity-spotting alDail dayly Mai(andl. Legendary well into theTraverse night).Bar Cafe - food, Disabled: perf level. Unsuitable Guide dogs admitted.

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AlTheatre l shows listed below can be found under Traverse Theatre Tron Kirk J'2 • Aug Begin24,Again: Venue 76Info122225High Street Tickets 225 1637 28,SeptKTC 2 14.12.3000 (15.

(13.page305)5)113£9.00 (£6.00) Phones: 1637 Aug 25,29,Sept 3 The Kirk wasof abuilt17thin Century 1637, and remained in use asovera church until 1952. Inside you can Aug 26,27,Sept 31,SeptI 19.4 317.0 0(20.0 (18.35)05) see theTronremains and houses, constructed.TheTron is currently anstreet Old Town Informationwhich Centre.the church was • Aug The Gogmagogs Gobbledygook: Gogmagogs page£7.11350 (£4.50) Previews Aug 13 20.

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3 0) Theatre Aug 15,18,2202 21.14.1455 (22.

(16.415)5) Aug Aug 17,19 211.1 017.0 3(12.0 (19.30)00) £ 12.00 (£7.50) • Shakespeare: Inat Love - thepage passion, & poetry Bruce5-21Morrison the20)Tron 78 atplays • Aug Happy Birthday Mister Deka D:Told By0) An Idiot page 113 Aug 13.30 (14.

Free (Donation door) Preview Aug 10 12.

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3 0) £6.00 (£4.

0 Aug 11, 1 5, 2 0, 2 7, S ept I 14.

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0 0) £9.00 (£6.

0 0) Aug 12,17,21,24,28,Sept 2 17.00 (18.30) Disabled: No disabled access - visitors have to negotiate front and internal steps.

Aug Aug 13,14,119,8,226,2,321,5,S29,eptSept4 12.3 019.0 3(13.0 (21.30)00) 147

Wireworks (behind Fringe Office) kii Venue I 19 Tronis situated Squareadjacent to the Fringe box office in Assembly Close. It provides The Wireworks ataking natural open setting for family audiences to sit and enjoy exciting performances whilst time out from the hustle and bustle of the town.

Children' s Shows Valvona <S Crolla gis • Aug Cinderella Instant Circus page 8 14-22 Albert 12.Albert 45 (13.3&5)Friends Free (donations) Venue 67 1908.30-20.00 Elm Row,(not top ofSun)Leith(InfoWalk556 Tickets 556 7800 • Aug Fru-Fru Circus page 8 Box Office: 6066) 14-22 14.00 (14.& Friends 45) FreeInstant (donations) Festival Fringe productions i n a theatre "beyond the treasure house of salamis, cheeses, balsamic vinegars Sunday& TiCrolla", mes. "IfFianything gourmet jealous ofandtheolive Scots,oils",it isTheValvona nancial Timakes mes. a London-based The Witchery Restaurant (outside) Venue 110 10.00-18.00 352 Castlehill, Royal Tickets 225 6745 JI0 AlMusic l shows listed below can be found under Valvona & Crolla unless otherwise stated Box Office: (Infopoint 225ofMile 6745) The show starts at a meeting outside the Witchery Restaurant, on Edinburgh' s • Anne Evans & Dick Lee page 63 Castlehill.

Aug 9,11,10,1213,20.140018.(21.001(19.

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1 Talks <fi Events Aug 28Edinburgh 11.00 (12.1Quartet 0) • The and 2-4Gore16.Tour Witchery • The Aug Witchery 12-15,19-22,Ghost 26-29, Sept 00 (17.3The0) £7.00 (£4.0Tours 0) page 71 Aug 21 -25 (not 22)page 11.6300 (12.10)page£ 10.6300 (£8.00) • Aug Guitarsolo 00 (12.(£5.05)00)£7.00 (£5.00) YMCA Bi7 2114-2015.0(not 0Songs (16.15)05)11.£7.00 Venue 177 10.30-22.00 73 Ferry Road Tickets 07775 871 342 / 556 0007 • Aug Neapolitan page (21.

63 05) £8.00 (£5.00) Box Office: (Info 556 0007) Aug 13, 1 4, 1 6-18, 2 6-28 20.00 LocatedEAScloseoncetoagain.

Leith's fashionable restaurantsandandvaried bars, this exciting 120 seat theatre • Zapateado: & Guitar programme Aug 9-13 II .0Mandolin 0 (12.10) £7.00 (£5.00) page 64 oldhosts- musicals to classicalThedrama.

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2 • Juliet' s 8 (£4.50) Aug 13,210,4,227,0,2281,215.7,2080 (16.

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15.00 (16.1page 0) Aug 18.30 (20.45) £6.00 (£4.50) • Aug Who' Aug 2117-2114.00(16.15) Aug 9-13 (16.118.0) 0116 £7.00 Aug 17-2715.(not00 22) 0 (19.1(£5.0) 00) Theatre All My17-21Sons21.15 (23.page15)84£6.00 (£4.50) Food and Ent: drink:6ydRetail Merchant and Caffe Bar. for wheelchair users. • Aug Disabled: I StHelpr. Delicatessen,Wine Aud:available.

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Venue 117 104 Gilmore Place Tickets 229 7659 Disabled: Please give advance notice for disabled access.

Box Office: 13.30 (Info 229 7659) We to- this22.30 long-established and welcome internationalyoutalent awaits you. Fringe venue, where once again a feast of local Children' s Shows Village Afridonia page 8 • Aug Afridonia 9-28 (not- African Suns) 18.45 (19.45) £5.00 (£2.00) THE ALLEN WRIGHT DEBATE Music at the Fringe Club, Old Assembly Close • Aug The9-28 Magic(notofSuns) Africa20.-0Afridonia 2000 Afridonia page 50 Thursday 12th August 12.15 to 13.45 0 (22.00) £5.00 (£3.00) Musicals/Opera • The Boy Friend The H. R .

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C . page 66 Aug 10-14 16.00 (18.45) £3.50 Theatre • Brighton S of A(£3.Productions Preview17-28AugBeach 16 22)14.Memoirs 3014.(16.30 2(16.5) 2£4.00 0) 00) page 109 (notLughnasa 5)Drama £6.00 0(£4.

• Aug Dancing at Kilkee Group-West Clare page 93 Aug 16-28 17.00 (19.30) £6.00 (£3.00) Visual • Aug TheArts West 16-28 14.Clare 00 (18.Experience 00) Free The West Clare Experience page 123 Disabled: Level route from street to auditorium - no steps. Spaces for wheelchairs in auditorium.

Venues

The Waverley Bar kis Venue 133 17.00-18.00 St Mary's Street Box Office: and then from 19.00 (Mon-Sat) (Info 553 3271) The Bar - when Upstairs wasstarsEdinburgh' s bestcareers knownthere. folk music from thewithFifties tomanytheWaveriey Eighties beganunchanged their Small venue and intimate finemidfeatures the barmany decor remains since its heyday.

Music • Aug Folk9-28 at the(notWaverley Suns) 19.30The(21.Waverley 00) £5.00Bar(£4.-0Upstairs 0) page 64 Food and drink: Light snacks only / ful l y licensed.

Disabled: Narrow staircase leading upstairs makes disabled access very difficult.

Wildwood Books kis Venue 29 1609.30-18.00 High Street(557Tickets Box Office: 4888) 557 4888 Talks • Aug Mind<&8-30Events Body09.00Spirit Wildwood Books page 7 / (22.0Festival 0) Prices vary 148

Join Michael Billington (the Guardian). Mary Brennan (the Herald) and Robert Dawson-Scott (the Scotsman) for a lively, controversial debate on the nature of arts journalism and criticism.

Chaired by Professor Ian Brown of Queen Margaret University, we invite you to challenge assumptions and review star-ratings.

The Allen Wright Award was launched in 1998 by the Fringe Office to encourage young journalists writing about the arts.

Index of Show Titles Baracoa Cuban Nights 5075 A s Party - Drayton Court Theatre Company Assembly Abigail' 83 Bare-The BareBaron - BarbObserver Jungr 58 Abigail'ss Party Party -- Warwick Rocket Venues 104 The Brothers Gilded Balloon 29 QQ Abigail' University Drama Society 116 Feast! The Banquet of Musick- -Harpsichords St Marks in AtCastle Terraces Hall 62 About Face -- The LostReynolds Cause Gallery 95 G Baroque Baroque Masterworks for Harpsichord St Cecilia' 57 About Face 121 Barrage - TheMcNeils Famous- The GrouseFamous HouseGrouse - Scottish International Presents Presents 5453 O Absolute The Absence and Naive 10947 The Barra House -New Scottish International SoloofWar -Singular Rosie -KaySweet BBC New Comedy Awards Grand Final BBC Comedy Awards 14 O Absurd Person SUSU Blow Up Theatre Group 109 G Beauty CanvasofTheatre Adam JokeWorld - Adam- Gilded Bloom Balloon Be Carna,- Blank Women the Flesh Balken: - TheatreBronze Workshop I 771812 Adam Bloom: HillsSingers - MyBeyond Own ALittle 2715 Beckerman Balken Beckerman Sculptures I Addison in theCounty Afternoon West 81 - New Voices at CanongateandKirk - Edinburgh International Festival 5987 Beckett Bedfordshire Youth- Club II Orchestra O Adolescence:Theme Variations - Frantic RedheadChoral Productions -The National AssociationObserver ofYouth Orchestras 58 Adolf The Observer Assembly 75 Bedsit-The Assembly 75 GO Adult Child, Dead Child Child -- Stage Rocket2 Venues 104 Begin Again: KTC Traverse Theatre 113 Adult Child/Dead 109 Behind Closed Doors -Company Camera in Three Plays in Search of a Title 7993 AfflicktionExperience - KCS Theatre OO African 44138 G Bellavita Benefit - Crusaid & The- Food Chain 15 Afridonia - African Village - Afridonia Ben Elton' s ' S illy Cow' Crumpet Theatre Company After Dinner Dirty Bird Productions 82 Ben Moor: Poppy Day- Pleasance - Ben MoorComedy 958139 O After - Commotion (North Ayrshire Youth Theatre) Ben’n' A rn' s Big Top -Alasdair ScottishJulietFraser’s National Association Of Youth Theatre 106 Berkoff s Women - The International Observer Assembly Skyedance 509 O Bert Jansch - Edinburgh Book Festival 5275 QQ Alice inThe Wonderland - Leicestershire Youth Arts O Beryl Markham Rocket Venues 104 Alice Musical Wells Cathedral Junior School ofof Scottish Irish Comedy - The- The StandStand Comedy ClubClub 42 4270 Best Allan Miller:Wright Balinese Shadow Porn - TheAward Stand Comedy Club: Stand I I Best Best Comedy Comedy The Debate Wright of'Fest So You Think You'Edition re Funny' - SoBalloon You Thinkat You' re Funny 424230 8477 The All MyAllenSons - Edinburgh Acting- AllenSchool Best of the The Early Gilded the Palladium AllMarcTalk Black Treacle Theatre - Oxford Company 5437 O The Almond Festival And a Glass of White Wine for the Lady - BFG Edinburgh Acting-University School Touring 6699 Al Murray the -PubFlux Landlord: O Big Big Aggie' s Pearls Kenspeckle Puppets O Alone, Coupled and Bunched Big and Daft Gilded Balloon 29 4455 Big Buzzard Boogie Band - The Beck's Famous Spiegeltent -AlyAlone, Coupled & Bunched featuring Chicago-Artists Phil Cunningham & Caraidean Gaelic Graffiti BiggerGraham Issue - -Reservoir Swans 10363 55 The AlythBain, McCormack - Gaelic Graffiti Big Issue Return of the Sometime Poet 49 Q American Choreographers' Showcases Thought-Forms Productions and Hungry 91 73 -BigHomeless An American Clock - American School Theatre Festival Holmes Sky Gaelic GraffitiProductions The American Group'99- High the Murder of Sherlock Big -Stink - Tickled Pink Early Productions 4355 102 O The - Pleasance FestivalDrama OfTheatre Big Value Comedy Show...

Screaming Blue Murder Comedy 41 The American Drama Group Brave New World Value Comedy Show... Late--Christie' Screaming Blue Murder Comedy 41 10298 Big - Pleasance Festival OfTheatre '99 Big Word- Ruskin Performance And Again - The'SOnion Shed Bildung School ofPoetry Drawing and FinesArtComedy Cellar 1222113 73 And I Whisper outh' American High School Theatre Festival Bill Bailey 88 Billy Liar - The Makars & DMDC and NODrom TALKING - GildedHungarian Balloon Gypsy Music 9574 Ando - Authentic - The Amsterdam Parade presents 53 Bingo!

- The Famous Grouse House --Andre ScottishVincent International Presents StageOfTheatre Company: Speed-the-Plow 43 Andre Vincent is Cheeky -Birmingham Pleasance Festival ' 9 9 101 63 O Andrew The Andrew Bain Quartet Tempo Musical Productions Black and Blue -- Edward' Money, sCup, Sugar,Water & Footlights Comedy Theatre 859550 21 O Black - ComedyMurrell Cafe -- Laboratorium Offin theDreadlocks Back of- 33a Truck BlackBlack EyedRider Biddy- -Metropol Caledonian FolkCompany AtMunich The Guildford 93 Andromache The Theater, 6756 Andrew Howitt Umfolosi (Zimbabwe) - Graffiti 4741 Black -The Famous Grousein TheHouseMemory - ScottishPalace International Presents Black Umfolosi Graffiti 56 Andy Robinson - Gaelic(Scotland) Graffiti / Trouble (New Zealand) 5887 Blazin' G Anglia Brass - The National Association ofYouth Orchestras Bleach -Fiddles Boilerhouse 785560 Angloklaxons -Dick Frantic Redhead Productions Blond, blue-eyed guy, 26 Mark Northfield 63 Anne Evans & Lee -Valvona & Crolla BloodyBloody Innocence - B.R.A-.TGresham' .S (Bishops Youth Reindorp 'A' Level Theatre Studies) 7889 Anne Alyth MacCormack and Ingrid Henderson 55 O The -Annie GaelicMartin, Graffiti Anna- Murray, Blue Grassy Millennium Knoll and -Buster Keaton onTheatre the Big Screen!

52 Nightingale Edinburgh International Book Festival The Observer Assembly Comedy Anonymous Society - The Observer Assembly Hyenas -Global Caledonian Folk At The Guildford 5013 1135019 Blue Antigone - Tomee Theatre Blue & Red Dance Works 47 Anything Can Happen California Travel Troupe @ San Francisco than International this: John Harvey & Second Nature I 9716 O -Bluer Appenneppa FaceOf Stuff Theatre Edinburgh Book Festival 52 Archie' s Arcade99and-- Volte Network MinorVoicesMass 8213 O -BNew TheBarker Architect the Emperor of Assyria - Diverse Attractions at Canongate Kirk Edinburgh International Choral Festival 59 Arj Bob Doolally Queers his Pitch The Stand Comedy Club 42 105 G Arn' t I A Woman?

Rocket Venues & Badger'-sGone Mad Wild MashProductions 3 - Bodger and Badger I12019 O Bodger Art@EdithSimon.Home Edith Simon- Gallery Bodies Unbound 898 Art Exhibition andShow Sale -of-Gilded Paintings Holyrood Art Club Bombo presents:The Divine David' s Spatial Awareness No. I 26 The Arthur Dung Balloon - GildedBongo BalloonClub Cabaret - The Bongo Club - out of the blue 8815 Arts andInternational the Millennium and excellence - Culture Wars 70 The ARTTS - The- accessibility Day Boothby Graffoe 3117 103 - Pleasance Festival OfTheatre 'Redhead 99 of Atonement The Bootlegs 119 AAshes Scottish Sojourn Frantic Productions Boots, Kinky Boots!s Comedy - RAW Theatre Company 10321 77 Boots, toStorrie Ashes-What - Badac Were TheatreYouCompany Bottle & Mango Christie' Cellar Ashley Doing When You Were 13?

- Harland Hamstrings Theatre Group 2167 O Bouncers -Assassins Classy Bitch- Midatlantic ProductionsProductions Box the Pony - TheUniversity ObserverTouring Assembly 7590 Boy Band Oxford Company 27 Asteroid Haemorrhoid Gilded Balloon Boy FriendConcerto - The H.RNo. .T.C.2 - Old St Paul's Music 99 10424 G The - Rocket VenuesDeath & Pestilence - The Four Horsemen Brandenburg 6086131 O AtAthena Last! Live!

It's War, Famine, Appleton' sBBCHistory of Rock'n'Roll - Brian Appleton 83 Brian Atramuntanat -- Drayton Court Theatre Company Brian Morton Scotland 5 103 Available Exits QMW Theatre Company Beach - S of A-Productions 46 O Brighton O Awakening Justice - The Elements British Song of theMemoirs 20th Century St Andrews And St Georges At Festival Time 109 60 Broken Seasonal Productions 107 B Baa Boys - In Human Form Davies The- Guitar FamousSensation Grouse House - Scottish International Presents 5853 9230 Bruce Baa BruceBulgarian Mathiske-Voices: Baby wants Candy - Gilded Balloon The Angelite - GraffitiHouse - Scottish International Presents 5356 57 Bach' s Well-tempered Clavier Harpsichords At St Cecilia' s Hal l Bumblebees - TheGrouse FamousHouse Grouse 5560 The Bachue - Gaelic Graffiti And St Georges At Festival Time Burach The Famous - Scottish International Presents 54 O Badinerie St Andrews 8754 Buzz Bad TheatreGrouse USC-USA Bye ByeStop20C- Negative Design Equity - InhouseTheatre Company 120 Bag O'Seed Cats- ofFestival - The Famous House - Scottish International Presents 47 The Ballad Branwell Bronte / Medea!!

Jonathan Burnett Solo Mime 8244 Balthazar - DiverseFestival Attractions The Bangladesh of Food and Culture 149

Index of Show Titles C - Edinburgh Youth Theatre Cabaret The Caged BirdFestival - The Royal ScottishCulture Academy Of Music Education & Drama Centre © The Caledon - Caledon, and Language Calming Down Brahma Kumaris © Cameo StYou? Marks- Steel in Castle Can I Kiss-Corelli' BellaTerrace Venue Captain s Mandolin -Valvona & Crolla Caribbean Tempest Theatrum Botanicum in Assoc with Holders Season, Barbados Carlton Comedy Warehouse Carmen Funebre (Funeral Song) Teatr Biuro Podrozy ©© The Carmina Gadelica St Marks i n Castle Terrace Carnival of Dreams Bilton Action Theatre Group '99 CarolineChadwick Nin - Lush(soprano) Life - Pleasance Festival(piano) OfTheatre © Carolyn John Moore - St 'Marks n Castle Terr Car -Cathedral Theatre Absolute FestivalSt Georges OfTheatre 99 iTime © The ChoirChoral - St- Pleasance Andrews And At Festival Cathedral Festival Sunday Services St Mary' s Cathedral CathedralMcKay Festival(Clarsach), Choral Evensong on Weekdays St Mary's Cathedral © Catriona Chris Stout (Shetland -Fiddle) -Ceilidhs The Clarsach (Scottish Harp) Society at the Caley - theGrouse Marwicks -Ceilidhs The Famous House- St- Scottish International Presents © Cello and Piano Recital Marks Castle Terrace Celtic Wah-Wah - The Famous Grousein House - Scottish International Presents Ceolas Gaelic Graffiti Ceol - Gaelic GraffitiMacNeil - Gaelic Graffiti Ceol Chalumchille Chalumchille OO Ceol Mor, Ceol Beagwith- The-Flora Chambers & Nettleton TwoClarsach forTruckthe(Scottish Price Harp) of OneSociety Comedy Cafe Off the Back of a O Character Code isOne - Scottishmy National Of Youth Theatre Charlie Chaplin Wearing Pants - Association Firefly Productions Cheeky Monkey Cheese 2k Cheese 2K at Doctor Watts Library Chekhov's sGarden Shorts -- Herbie DiverseTreehead Attractions O Cherub' Chess - TempoTribute Musical- Graffiti Productions Presents Chet Baker Chick' s Chat- Japan- Gilded Balloon Chikuzan Experience Children EdenSugar - American HighTheatre School Theatre Festival ©O AChoir Chipandinofthe Orchestra -Company St Andrews And St Georges At Festival Time Choir of St Mary' s Cathedral in Concert Chris Addison: Brothers Gentleman, Scholar, Acrobat- St Mary's Cathedral The Christian Gilded Balloon Cinderella & Friends Instant Cirque Eloize- Albert -and Excentricus - CirqueCircus Eloize City of Cardiff Vale of Glamorgan Youth Orchestra -City The ofNational Association of Youth Orchestras Sheffield Youth Orchestra -Claire The National Association of Youth Orchestras McLaughlin & Marianne Campbell -The Famous Grouse - Scottish International O© Clarinet Clarinet and Piano -House St -Andrews AndAnd St Georges AtPresents Festival TimeTime Kaleidoscope St Andrews St Georges At Festival O Classical Guitar Feast Jonathan Prag Clay '9- The 9 - TheFamous AdamGrouse PotteryHouse - Scottish International Presents Cliar Closer thanthe Ever - Cambridge University Close to Funny Bone - Gilded BalloonADC Club Festival - TheClub Edinburgh International Club Festival Clubs The Bongo out of the blue O The Coates Duo13 - St Andrews And St Georges At Festival Time C.O.D. Venue Coffee with Dave Williams- The - Gilded Balloon Bookshop Colin Baxter' s Edinburgh Stockbridge Colin Murphy Colin Reidof-Errors The Famous Grouse House - Scottish International Presents Comedy O The Comedy of the- Union MarksTheatre - Edinburgh People's Theatre The Comedy Supermarket The Comedy Zone - 'That Biscuit Stole my Husband!'

Come On! Productions -Commitments Pleasance Comedy- Harland Hamstrings Theatre Group Conception - California Troupe @ San Francisco Connections RoyalTravel Academy The Constant- The Couple - Scottish 100% Proof Theatre Company Contemporary Art Lackadaisical Contemporary Contradance - Teatro AlbaAssembly - Comedy Art O Cookin' -with The Observer Cooking Elvis The presents Cooking with Elvis Coroboree inGrouse Night-House SulliedObserver Flesh Assembly -The Famous Scottish International Corpus Christ!Strong - Theatre& Terry 28 Titter: 'You Ain't Presents Count Arthur - GildedCountry BalloonPancake - Downe Right Bonkers Seen Nothin’Yet!' O The Cousin Anna - -Present Excepted Craig Charles Still- Robin LiveCompany OnLainEarth - Craig Charles Craws andGershwin Linties gCourt and Friends Crazy for Drayton Theatre Festival Company Crazy for You American High School Theatre Cream of Irish - Gilded Balloon ISO

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© Francis Martineau - St MarksHitsin Castle Terrace Frank Skinner' 414462 O Frantic Assemblys -Greatest - SellScotland Out - The Observer Assembly Fred MacAulay BBC 15 Free Acoustic MusicHouse Sessions -The Famous Grouse - Scottish International Presents 53 Free as a Bird Danish Cultural Institute 118 Free Easyof-the The Earhole Stand Comedy Club 4217 Free &PBH BuckleyRevueHil O Fresh from the Eclipse - The- Peter Durham 23 Fresh Mess and Iona Kewney -The Famous Grouse House - the Scottish International Presents 4630 Friday Night at the End of World Gilded Balloon FringeFringe AnnualClubGeneral Meeting 7071 The - FringeRadio Club4 - Fringe AGM Fringe Fictions - BBC Fringe Grad School Fringe Club 711419 Fringe Poster Competition Exhibition Fringe Poster Competition I O Fringe Sunday 7114 Front - BBC& Radio Fru-Fru-Row - Albert Friends4 Spiegeltent Instant Circus 8 Fruit The Beck' s Famous 63 The Funjabi -Show FurtherTed Gilded- Club BalloonWest 3021 G Drama - Edinburgh Gaelic Drama Group Gaelic 8455 Gaelic Women- Gaelic - GaelicGraffiti Graffiti Gael Power 55 ©© Garden Notes -Valvona & Crolla I Gareth Hunt' s - St Andrews And St Georges At Festival Time 617716 Gaspers Backstage Theatre Company Gaveston - DiverseProductions Attractions presents 'Bond' - Gilded Balloon 82 Generally Genome - Better Raven Crest Productions 1038888 Gentlemen Volunteers Gilded Balloon Geraldine McNulty inGreatest Betty - Hits Gilded- Gilded BalloonBalloon 29 Geraldine McNulty: Get that Down you- SpitNow - Drayton Court Theatre Company 834927 O© The The Gilded Cage & Polish Theatre Girl I sLeftBagBehind Me - The TheatreTime Company 95 Gladstone' -String St Andrews AndLuckley-Oakfield St- Georges At Festival O Glasgow Schools Orchestra National Association ofYouth Orchestras 586057 Glenbrook South High School Master Singers Highland Harmony Fest i v al G.O.4.

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Index of Show Titles 78 Holly from the- Acoustic Bongs -Underground Blinding Imageat theTron Holly Tomas 1215082 Holography ' 9 9 and Pinhole Photography Outlook Tower & Camera Obscura Home Run Theatre Company Attractions 9282 Hoodwinked - JakesAttractions Ladder Theatre- Diverse Company Hostages - Diverse 6581 House of Passions Art-Vic Anglo Russian Theatre The House of Pootsie Plunket Canada' s Catalyst Theatre Howie The RookieStory- The- Seasonal Bush Productions 1077971 How I Got that How Successfully - Outrageous Scripts 9170 How tototo bemake aShakespeare Human Mad BeingPopular?

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© Kaleidoscope - Aurora/Western State University Kalman Balogh: Romanoof Being KokaloConnecticut - Graffiti- Kaos 568 The Kaos Importance Earnest Theatre UK Ltd 93 Kassandra - Cambridge UniversityCarriers ADC 45 Kati Szvorak and theHouse Water -The FamousEnsemble Grouse - ScottishUniversity) International Presents 53 The Kelvin (Glasgow National Association of Youth Orchestras 5919 O -Ken Campbell Kenny Young Beyond & the Eggplants 58 Kevin Hayes: the Pale The Stand Comedy Club 42 Kevin Hayes: Beyond the Pope The Stand Comedy Club: Stand I 42 © The King King' Arthurs Musick and the- OldKnights ofs the Table - Lip Service 35 St Paul' MusicOccasional 99Book Festival O Kinky Friedman - Edinburgh International 846039 Kissing the Goldfish Pleasance Comedy O© Klimt Kiss My- TheHoneymoon Lips - Motormouse Productions 36 KoreanUltimate RedNetherbow Fires - ClubTheatre West Experience - The Banana Rebel Troupe 459613 The Kosher Comedy Kosovar Cabaret - Leaner andConcert Fitter - Midland Art Theatre Krapp' sVostoka Last Tape/Request 953513 Krasky (Colours of the East) -The Observer Assembly Comedy ©© Krazy Kat's sDairy Three- Traverse Little Pigs - Krazy Kat Theatre Company Krishnan' 113479 KumikoYamaguchi - BodyTheatre Talk - Japan Experience L - Company Theatre OO Labels 81 Labyrinth Mystery of the Monster in the Maze -LaWeeChavannee Stories- The Theatre For Children 11 - The Famous Grouse House - ScottishTheatre International © LaLa Double Inconstance (inKahlo French) - Anglo-French ProjectPresents 745395 Flor de Mexico/Frida Martha Furey Productions ©O The Samoa -- The Netherbow Theatre 9795 The Laird Laird ofofo' Igor Grippy Leitheatre © The Land -International Compagnie Le Puits Budapest Laodamia Merlin Theatre, 958781 © Last Lists Of My Mad Mother Frantic Redhead Productions Last Pantotoin Nibroc Little Grimley - Paulerspury Players- The Observer Assembly 99 Last Train - TheBoxJourney Company The Last Words of -Elvin - The Jolly Roger Theatre Company 922575 Las Vegas at Large Frantic Redhead Productions Late-night Durufle - StBalloon Mary's Cathedral 6226 Late 'n' LiveNight - Gilded Late Late One - -Cambridge Mummers 7924 The Snatch Filthy Gibbon Productions Laurie Booth The Famous Grouse House Scottish International Presents 46 The League Against 3481 Leaving Lara - Devil'sTedium Kitchen Productions Lee Mack' s Bits 35 ©© The Legend of Brigadoon La Danse Fantastique Leicestershire & Leicester Arts in Education Symphonic Wind Band 6758 -Leikenloppu National Association of Youth Orchestras in The Tailors -The Famous Virus Grouse Houseign Communications - Scottish International Presents 4635 The Leisure -- Mal © L'TheEmbarquement La Compagnie Orange Sanguine 47 Lennie223and- UGlyMorris ShowCompany - Lennie & Morris Leopard 1133534 Les KeenPhillips is AllinAtOnSeaTheatre - LesWhole Keenit's been Jolly Good Leslie the - Pleasance '99 Theatre 10197 Letter toFestival Alan -OfTheatre New Mercury ©© ALibby The Eccentric Theatre Company 8460 Lieder Recital -andSt Andrews AndAndStOther GeorgesWorks At Festival Time Life, Love, Sex Death... in Progress Famous- Everyman Grouse House -Theatre Scottish International Presents 24 © -The Lifesaving Youthbehind Life' s tooTheatre Short to- Paint the Radiator - Group Therapy'9Theatre Company 1028589 Lifetime Bath Time Pleasance Festival OfTheatre 9 The Light - Magapar 489 O© The The Lion, the FoxGirl and -theC Mouse - lanTurbitt's Puppet Theatre Little Match ©© The Little Red HenHood - The- Venue Famous13Grouse House - Scottish International Presents I 98I Little Red Riding ©© Little Shop -- ZooT. Forth Children' s Theatre 66 Little Shop ofof Horrors Horrors Little Women - Pleasance FestivalC.OfTheatre '99 1022369 Live Bait Dallas And Packer Livin' ERoom re - ClubLegends/Travler West 4551 Living - Classy Bitch Productions Liz Lochhead & Michael Marra In Flagrant Delict -Lizzard The Famous Grouse House - Scottish International Presents 54 Lounge - Graffiti Llan deYouth Cube!

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